Jenks Abram Sch

Jenks Abram Sch is one of the intimate elementary schools in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Philadelphia City SD, with 278 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Jenks Abram Sch sits 37% below that benchmark.

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

On demographics, Jenks Abram Sch lists that the most-represented group is White (37%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 33% Asian, 13% Black, 10% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Philadelphia County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Jenks Abram Sch has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. About 92% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Jenks Abram Sch ranks in the top 10% of Pennsylvania public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 38.3%; Jenks Abram Sch posts 69.9%, +31.6 points above that line.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Philadelphia County indicate the typical household earns roughly $61,953 per year, 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 Jenks Abram Sch is one.

Philadelphia Performing Arts CS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Jenks Abram Sch comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 32.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Over the past 7-year window. Jenks Abram Sch's enrollment has fell 4% since 2018, when it stood at 291 (now 278). White enrollment moved from 46% to 37% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 in 2025.

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