Global Leadership Academy CS

Global Leadership Academy CS is an elementary-level community of roomy scale in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, overseen by Global Leadership Academy CS, hosting 692 students in grades K through 8. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Global Leadership Academy CS sits 56% above that benchmark.

Global Leadership Academy CS sits inside Global Leadership Academy CS, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

On the student-mix side, Global Leadership Academy CS records that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (97%). The wider county runs roughly 39% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school reports having 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 23.9:1. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 97% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Global Leadership Academy CS falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 36.2%; this one comes in at 16.2%, -20.1 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Philadelphia County) reports that median household income runs about $61,953, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 17%. In all, Philadelphia County runs 309 public schools (combined enrollment of about 182,005 students), of which Global Leadership Academy CS is one.

Nearest neighbor: Blankenburg Rudolph Sch, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Global Leadership Academy CS comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 19.6%.

Global Leadership Academy CS operates from a city-core location. Global Leadership Academy CS is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. Global Leadership Academy CS's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 699 (now 692). The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 20.0:1 in 2018 to 23.9:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.