Furness Horace HS

As a middle-of-the-pack senior high in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Furness Horace HS works with 896 students from grades 9 through 12, one of the schools within Philadelphia City SD. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 738 students each, so Furness Horace HS sits 21% above that benchmark.

Philadelphia City SD runs 220 schools in total, collectively educating 116,230 students. Furness Horace HS is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Furness Horace HS records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 44%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school shows 30% Asian, 16% Black, 7% White, 3% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 16%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. About 92% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Furness Horace HS sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 38.3%; this one delivers 23.1%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Philadelphia County) records that median household income runs about $61,953, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 17%. In all, Philadelphia County runs 309 public schools (combined enrollment of about 182,005 students), of which Furness Horace HS is one.

Sharswood George Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Furness Horace HS at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 36.3%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Furness Horace HS has climbed 39%, going from 645 students in 2018 to 896 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 24% to 44% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 19.7:1 today.

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