Kenderton El Sch

As a small elementary campus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Kenderton El Sch teaches 300 students from grades K through 8, run under Philadelphia City SD. That puts it 32% leaner than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 443 students.

Across the 220 schools in Philadelphia City SD (116,230 students total), Kenderton El Sch accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Kenderton El Sch records that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (85%). The remainder is composed of 13% Hispanic. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 39%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Kenderton El Sch tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 94% of students at Kenderton El Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Kenderton El Sch sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 37.2%; actual is 8.4%, a gap of -28.7 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Philadelphia County) records that 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%. Kenderton El Sch is one of 309 public schools in Philadelphia County (combined enrollment of about 182,005 students).

The closest other public school is Bethune Mary McLeod Sch, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Kenderton El Sch comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 20.8%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Kenderton El Sch has edged down 33%, going from 445 students in 2018 to 300 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 4% to 13%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 today.

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