Girard Stephen Sch

Girard Stephen Sch operates as a low-enrollment elementary school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, run under Philadelphia City SD. Current enrollment sits at 296 students spanning grades K through 4. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Girard Stephen Sch sits 33% below that benchmark.

Philadelphia City SD comprises 220 schools with combined enrollment of 116,230 students; Girard Stephen Sch is among them.

On the student-mix side, Girard Stephen Sch lists that 51% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school reports 17% Asian, 14% White, 14% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 39%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. About 94% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Girard Stephen Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.3%, the actual is 35.2%, a residual of -2.1 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Philadelphia County put the typical household earns roughly $61,953 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 17%. Across Philadelphia County's 309 public schools (combined enrollment of about 182,005 students), Girard Stephen Sch is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Gamp, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Girard Stephen Sch. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Girard Stephen Sch at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 40.9%.

Girard Stephen Sch operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Girard Stephen Sch has contracted 44%, going from 526 students in 2018 to 296 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment decreased from 63% to 51% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 today.

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