KIPP Philadelphia Octavius Catto CS

KIPP Philadelphia Octavius Catto CS is a primary school of moderately sized scale in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within KIPP Philadelphia Octavius Catto CS, educateing 398 students in grades K through 3.

KIPP Philadelphia Octavius Catto CS is the operating authority for KIPP Philadelphia Octavius Catto CS, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

For racial and ethnic makeup, KIPP Philadelphia Octavius Catto CS lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (86%). Other groups include 6% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, 2% White. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 39%.

In terms of school funding signals, KIPP Philadelphia Octavius Catto CS logs 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. Roughly 76% of students at KIPP Philadelphia Octavius Catto CS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Philadelphia County (around 95%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, KIPP Philadelphia Octavius Catto CS falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 45.1%; this one comes in at 26.9%, -18.2 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, Philadelphia County reports that median household income runs about $61,953, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 17%. KIPP Philadelphia Octavius Catto CS is one of 309 public schools in Philadelphia County (combined enrollment of about 182,005 students).

Locke Alain Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around KIPP Philadelphia Octavius Catto CS. On composite proficiency, KIPP Philadelphia Octavius Catto CS comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 15.2%.

The school occupies a city-core site. KIPP Philadelphia Octavius Catto CS operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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