Kelly John B Sch

Kelly John B Sch is a compact elementary campus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, part of Philadelphia City SD. The school instructs 365 students in grades K through 5.

Philadelphia City SD runs 220 schools in total, collectively educating 116,230 students. Kelly John B Sch is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Kelly John B Sch logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (87%). The remainder reads as 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% White. By comparison, Philadelphia County as a whole is about 39% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Kelly John B Sch tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 96% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Kelly John B Sch tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 36.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 22.1%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Philadelphia County put 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%. Kelly John B Sch is one of 309 public schools in Philadelphia County (combined enrollment of about 182,005 students).

The closest other public school is Fitler Academics Plus, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Kelly John B Sch. On composite proficiency, Kelly John B Sch comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 21.9%.

Kelly John B Sch operates from an urban location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Kelly John B Sch's enrollment has ticked down 45% since 2018, when it stood at 663 (now 365). The Black share of enrollment contracted from 92% to 87% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 today.

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