Lankenau HS

Lankenau HS is a secondary school of one-room-style scale in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, overseen by Philadelphia City SD, instructing 228 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 738 students each, so Lankenau HS sits 69% smaller than that benchmark.

Philadelphia City SD comprises 220 schools with combined enrollment of 116,230 students; Lankenau HS is among them.

In terms of who attends, Lankenau HS records that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (87%); the rest comes out to 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% White. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 39%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 114% of students at Lankenau HS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Philadelphia County (around 95%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Philadelphia County) reports 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%. In all, Philadelphia County runs 309 public schools (combined enrollment of about 182,005 students), of which Lankenau HS is one.

Nearest neighbor: Shawmont Sch, around 1.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lankenau HS.

The school occupies an urban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lankenau HS has ticked down 34%, going from 344 students in 2018 to 228 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 31.8:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 in 2025.

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