Kearny Gen Philip Sch

Kearny Gen Philip Sch is a K-5 school of tight-knit scale in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, run under Philadelphia City SD, caters to 189 students in grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 57% below the state mean of about 443.

Philadelphia City SD runs 220 schools in total, collectively educating 116,230 students. Kearny Gen Philip Sch is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Kearny Gen Philip Sch records that 72% of the student body identifies as Black. Other groups include 19% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 2% White. By comparison, Philadelphia County as a whole is about 39% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Kearny Gen Philip Sch tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 88% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Kearny Gen Philip Sch is in the bottom 10% of Pennsylvania public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 40.0%; Kearny Gen Philip Sch posts 21.7%, -18.2 points below that line.

Around the school, census data for Philadelphia County shows median household income runs about $61,953, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 Kearny Gen Philip Sch is one.

Nearest neighbor: Young Scholars CS, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Kearny Gen Philip Sch. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Kearny Gen Philip Sch at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 33.9%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 42%: 328 students in 2018 compared to 189 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 5% to 19% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 9.3:1 in 2025.

On this page, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.