Kensington Creative & Performing Arts HS

Kensington Creative & Performing Arts HS is a compact four-year high school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, overseen by Philadelphia City SD. The school hosts 510 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 31% smaller than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 738 students.

Philadelphia City SD runs 220 schools in total, collectively educating 116,230 students. Kensington Creative & Performing Arts HS is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Kensington Creative & Performing Arts HS reports that 55% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 35% Black, 5% White, 4% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 16%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 98% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Kensington Creative & Performing Arts HS is in the bottom 10% of Pennsylvania public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 35.7%; Kensington Creative & Performing Arts HS posts 15.5%, -20.2 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Philadelphia County shows median household earnings sit near $61,953, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 17% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Philadelphia County's 309 public schools (combined enrollment of about 182,005 students), Kensington Creative & Performing Arts HS is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Moffet John Sch, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Kensington Creative & Performing Arts HS ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 32.4%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Kensington Creative & Performing Arts HS has climbed 6%, going from 479 students in 2018 to 510 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share fell from 60% to 55%.

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