Frederick Douglass Mastery CS

Frederick Douglass Mastery CS operates as a middle-of-the-pack primary school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, run under Frederick Douglass Mastery CS. Current enrollment sits at 528 students spanning grades K through 8.

Frederick Douglass Mastery CS is a school of Frederick Douglass Mastery CS, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Frederick Douglass Mastery CS shows that 90% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest reads as 6% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Philadelphia County as a whole is about 39% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Frederick Douglass Mastery CS records 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.0:1. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Frederick Douglass Mastery CS falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 35.0%; this one comes in at 13.6%, -21.4 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, census data for Philadelphia County shows median household earnings sit near $61,953, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 17%. In all, Philadelphia County runs 309 public schools (combined enrollment of about 182,005 students), of which Frederick Douglass Mastery CS is one.

Nearest neighbor: Dick William Sch, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Frederick Douglass Mastery CS. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Frederick Douglass Mastery CS ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 19.9%.

Frederick Douglass Mastery CS operates from a metropolitan location. Frederick Douglass Mastery CS operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Trend over the last 7 years. Frederick Douglass Mastery CS's enrollment has fell 30% since 2018, when it stood at 749 (now 528). Black enrollment moved from 98% to 90% across the same window.

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