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Enrollment
501
Elementary
STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FOLK ARTS-CULTURAL TREASURES CS·NCES 420014100897
Folk Arts-Cultural Treasures CS
1023 Callowhill St, Philadelphia, PA 19123 · (215) 569-2600 · Philadelphia County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL501 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 83% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Pennsylvania public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.2:1
41 FTE teachers
STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
494 students
STATE 75%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 50 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 56 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 56 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 57 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 56 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 56 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 59 | 12% |
| Grade 7 | 56 | 11% |
| Grade 8 | 55 | 11% |
This year's kindergarten class (50) is 9% smaller than its 8th grade class (55).
Student demographics
47%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
65.5%
PA avg 51.1% . +2.1pp since 2023
Math
62.5%
PA avg 43.0% . +7.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 66 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 63 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 65.5% | 62.5% |
| 2023-24 | 63.4% | 55.5% |
% Proficient or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: PSSA + Keystone. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of PA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
62.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
35.3%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+27.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 62% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 35% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 27 points, placing it in Pennsylvania's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Folk Arts-Cultural Treasures CS
Folk Arts-Cultural Treasures CS's state test result (62.3% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Folk Arts-Cultural Treasures CS this school | 501 | 98.6% | 62.3% |
| Lawnton Elementary School Harrisburg | 310 | 91.9% | 32.2% |
| McCall Gen George A School Philadelphia | 629 | 98.1% | 77.9% |
| Greenberg Joseph School Philadelphia | 925 | 93.0% | 71.5% |
| Taggart John H School Philadelphia | 529 | 99.1% | 33.1% |
| Loesche William H School Philadelphia | 1,263 | 92.3% | 52.1% |
Matched among Pennsylvania elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Folk Arts-Cultural Treasures CS ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Philadelphia County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 62.3% | #515 of 1,396 | #9 of 161 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 62.5% | #465 of 1,511 ▲ 134 | #8 of 193 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 65.5% | #295 of 1,511 ▲ 214 | #9 of 193 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 501 | #530 of 1,638 | #86 of 194 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.2:1 | #506 of 1,528 | #67 of 189 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 47.4% | #597 of 1,531 | #82 of 189 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 98.6% | #422 of 1,600 | #99 of 193 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -0.8% | #1,012 of 1,045 | #134 of 135 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
501
+11 (+2%) vs 2020
+11% since 2010-11, when it was 453
Student : Teacher
12.2:1
was 14.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 501 | 41 | 12.2:1 | 99% (494) |
| 2023-24 | 494 | 37 | 13.3:1 | 100% (494) |
| 2022-23 | 487 | 37 | 13.2:1 | 100% (487) |
| 2020-21 | 490 | 35 | 14.0:1 | 54% (267) |
| 2017-18 | 505 | 31.6 | 16.0:1 | 63% (320) |
| 2015-16 | 479 | 30 | 16.0:1 | 77% (368) |
| 2010-11 | 453 | 31 | 14.6:1 | 86% (391) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Folk Arts-Cultural Treasures CS.
Since 2017-18: students down 1% (505 to 501); teachers up 30% (31.6 to 41).
About Folk Arts-Cultural Treasures CS
Folk Arts-Cultural Treasures CS is an elementary school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, according to federal school records. Students in kindergarten through 8 attend the school, which enrolls 501 students.
The school serves as its own district in federal records.
At Folk Arts-Cultural Treasures CS, Asian students make up 71% of the student body. The next largest groups are 9% White, 8% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, and 6% Black. The school's Asian share is 63 points above the 8% share among Philadelphia County residents. Pick two students at random and there is a 47% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The teaching staff at Folk Arts-Cultural Treasures CS is 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 12.2:1. The school has fewer students per teacher than the 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania. About 99% of students, or 494, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Folk Arts-Cultural Treasures CS is graded A- by allk12, scoring above 83% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Folk Arts-Cultural Treasures CS posts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 62.3%. Schools with its free or reduced-price lunch share in Pennsylvania are predicted to post 35.3%, so the school is 27.0 points ahead and in the state's top 10%.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Philadelphia County show that the median household income is $61,953, about 35% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 17%. Besides Folk Arts-Cultural Treasures CS, Philadelphia County has 308 other public schools.
The shortest distance from Folk Arts-Cultural Treasures CS to another public school is about 0.3 miles, to Parkway Center City Middle College. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of the 7 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Folk Arts-Cultural Treasures CS is 4th on average proficiency.
By NCES locale, the school is City: Large, or inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more. Folk Arts-Cultural Treasures CS is one of the charter schools in Pennsylvania.
Enrollment at Folk Arts-Cultural Treasures CS was 490 in 2020-21 and 501 in 2024-25, a change of less than 3%. Students per teacher fell from 14.0 in 2020-21 to 12.2 in 2024-25.
Topics for discussion here include school events, clubs, and volunteer needs. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Philadelphia County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,579,706
Census ACS
Median income
$61,953
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
17%
Below federal line
Schools in county
309
182,005 students
Quick facts
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Frequently asked questions
About Folk Arts-Cultural Treasures CSHow large is Folk Arts-Cultural Treasures CS?
Folk Arts-Cultural Treasures CS enrolls approximately 501 students in grades KG-08.
What age range does Folk Arts-Cultural Treasures CS serve?
Folk Arts-Cultural Treasures CS serves students from grade KG through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Folk Arts-Cultural Treasures CS?
Approximately 12.2:1 students per teacher at Folk Arts-Cultural Treasures CS.
How diverse is Folk Arts-Cultural Treasures CS?
Folk Arts-Cultural Treasures CS reports a student body of 9% White, 6% Hispanic, 6% Black, 71% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Is Folk Arts-Cultural Treasures CS public or private?
Folk Arts-Cultural Treasures CS is a public K-12 school operated as a charter, overseen by Folk Arts-Cultural Treasures CS.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.