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How has Frankford HS changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
907
High
DISTRICT 689 · STATE 738
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PHILADELPHIA CITY SD·NCES 421899003850
Frankford High School
5000 Oxford Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19124 · (215) 400-7200 · Philadelphia County
GRADES 09–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL907 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 3% of Pennsylvania public high schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats 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 high schools
Student : Teacher
14.2:1
64 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.7:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
95%
859 students
DISTRICT 99% · STATE 75%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 225 | 25% |
| Grade 10 | 242 | 27% |
| Grade 11 | 233 | 26% |
| Grade 12 | 207 | 23% |
Student demographics
61%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · 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
20.9%
PA avg 51.1% . +5.9pp since 2023
Math
6.1%
PA avg 43.0% . +3.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 21 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 6 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 20.9% | 6.1% |
| 2023-24 | 15.0% | 3.0% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of PA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
11.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
37.0%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-25.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 11% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 37% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Frankford High School
Frankford High School's state test result (11.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frankford High School this school | 907 | 94.7% | 11.5% |
| Mastbaum Jules E Area Vocational-Technical School Philadelphia | 651 | 90.3% | 20.1% |
| Harrisburg High School Harrisburg | 1,343 | 99.4% | 5.4% |
| Olney High School Philadephia | 1,168 | 99.7% | 15.7% |
| William Penn SHS York | 1,681 | 95.7% | 19.4% |
| Kensington Creative & Performing Arts High School Philadelphia | 510 | 97.8% | 15.5% |
Matched among Pennsylvania high 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 Frankford High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Philadelphia County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 11.5% | #557 of 576 | #49 of 57 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 6.1% | #584 of 626 ▲ 17 | #50 of 67 ▲ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 20.9% | #594 of 626 ▲ 19 | #57 of 67 ▲ 9 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 907 | #207 of 713 | #15 of 70 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.2:1 | #329 of 601 | #14 of 65 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 61.1% | #84 of 604 | #20 of 65 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 94.7% | #223 of 619 | #49 of 67 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.7% | #342 of 373 | #33 of 35 |
Ranked against other public high 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
907
+9 (+1%) vs 2020
-48% since 1990-91, when it was 1,748
Student : Teacher
14.2:1
was 13.6:1
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 | 907 | 64 | 14.2:1 | 95% (859) |
| 2023-24 | 857 | 87.4 | 9.8:1 | N/A |
| 2022-23 | 923 | 71.2 | 13.0:1 | 100% (922) |
| 2020-21 | 898 | 66 | 13.6:1 | 100% (895) |
| 2017-18 | 923 | 58.1 | 15.9:1 | 100% (922) |
| 2015-16 | 1,099 | 63 | 17.4:1 | 100% (1,099) |
| 2010-11 | 1,820 | 115 | 15.8:1 | 100% (1,817) |
| 2000-01 | 2,133 | 105 | 20.3:1 | 69% (1,471) |
| 1990-91 | 1,748 | 102 | 17.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Frankford High School.
Since 2017-18: students down 2% (923 to 907); teachers up 10% (58.1 to 64).
About Frankford High School
Frankford High School is a mid-sized high school located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The school has 907 students in 2024-25 across grades 9 through 12. High schools in Pennsylvania average about 738 students, which makes this school 23% bigger than average.
A total of 220 schools make up Philadelphia City SD, with 116,230 students enrolled.
At Frankford High School, Hispanic students make up the biggest share, 48%. Other groups make up 38% Black, 6% White, and 5% multiracial. County-wide, 16% of Philadelphia County residents are Hispanic. A diversity index of 61% means there is a 61% chance two randomly chosen students at Frankford High School are from different groups.
The school has 64 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 14.2 students per teacher. Statewide, high schools in Pennsylvania average 12.8:1. Of all students at Frankford High School, 95% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Philadelphia County is similar, at 95%.
On the allk12 Grade, Frankford High School lands at F, ahead of 3% of Pennsylvania public high schools.
Frankford High School scores 25.5 points below its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results: 11.5% actual versus 37.0% predicted. That puts it in the bottom 10% of Pennsylvania schools on BeatsExpectations.
In the surrounding county, Philadelphia County, median household income comes to about $61,953, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 35% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 17%. The county's public schools total 309, with about 182,005 students.
Among nearby public schools, The Philadelphia CS for Arts and Sciences at HR Edmunds is closest at about 0.3 miles. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. By average proficiency, Frankford High School is 7th among 8 schools close by.
NCES describes the area around Frankford High School as City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment went from 898 in 2020-21 to 907 in 2024-25, a change of 9 students.
Parents, students, and staff can share information on pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback here. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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
Related schools
Other schools in Philadelphia City SD
- Northeast High SchoolHigh · 3,463 students
- Lincoln High SchoolHigh · 2,472 students
- Central High SchoolHigh · 2,329 students
- Northeast Community Propel AcademyElementary · 1,783 students
- Mayfair SchoolElementary · 1,763 students
- Washington George High SchoolHigh · 1,755 students
Other schools in Philadelphia
- Northeast High SchoolHigh · 3,463 students
- Philadelphia Performing Arts CSCombined · 2,572 students
- Lincoln High SchoolHigh · 2,472 students
- Central High SchoolHigh · 2,329 students
- MaST Community CS IICombined · 1,875 students
- First Philadelphia Preparatory CSCombined · 1,831 students
Nearby schools
- The Philadelphia CS for Arts and Sciences at HR Edmunds0.3 mi · 885
- Northwood Academy CS0.5 mi · 796
- Marshall John School0.5 mi · 250
- Mastery CS-Smedley Campus0.6 mi · 751
- Stearne Allen M School0.7 mi · 372
- Ziegler William H School0.8 mi · 522
Frequently asked questions
About Frankford High SchoolHow large is Frankford High School?
Frankford High School enrolls approximately 907 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does Frankford High School serve?
Frankford High School serves grades 09-12.
How many students per teacher at Frankford High School?
Approximately 14.2:1 students per teacher at Frankford High School.
How diverse is Frankford High School?
Frankford High School reports a student body of 6% White, 48% Hispanic, 38% Black, 2% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Frankford High School?
Frankford High School is overseen by Philadelphia City SD in Philadelphia County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.