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Enrollment
503
Elementary
DISTRICT 474 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PHILADELPHIA CITY SD·NCES 421899006530
Lea Henry C School
4700 Locust St, Philadelphia, PA 19139 · (215) 400-7660 · Philadelphia County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL503 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 19% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Pennsylvania public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.1:1
38 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.6:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
96%
484 students
DISTRICT 99% · STATE 75%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 30 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 62 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 48 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 56 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 76 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 52 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 56 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 41 | 8% |
| Grade 7 | 42 | 8% |
| Grade 8 | 40 | 8% |
This year's kindergarten class (62) is 55% larger than its 8th grade class (40).
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
38.6%
PA avg 51.1% . +2.6pp since 2023
Math
25.6%
PA avg 43.0% . +3.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 39 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 26 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 38.6% | 25.6% |
| 2023-24 | 36.0% | 21.7% |
% Proficient or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: PSSA + Keystone. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
30.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
36.4%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 30% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 36% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Pennsylvania's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Lea Henry C School
Lea Henry C School's state test result (30.5% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lea Henry C School this school | 503 | 96.2% | 30.5% |
| Girard Stephen School Philadelphia | 296 | 93.9% | 35.2% |
| Primos Elementary School Primos | 499 | 93.0% | 38.3% |
| Childs George W School Philadelphia | 471 | 94.1% | 26.0% |
| Bregy F Amedee School Philadelphia | 264 | 95.1% | 21.7% |
| Pittsburgh Westwood K-5 Pittsburgh | 278 | 93.2% | 47.6% |
Matched among Pennsylvania elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Lea Henry C School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Philadelphia County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 30.5% | #1,168 of 1,396 | #56 of 161 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 25.6% | #1,218 of 1,511 ▲ 23 | #57 of 193 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 38.6% | #1,043 of 1,511 ▲ 137 | #42 of 193 ▲ 13 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 503 | #527 of 1,638 | #85 of 194 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.1:1 | #782 of 1,528 | #90 of 189 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.8% | #256 of 1,531 | #47 of 189 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 96.2% | #532 of 1,600 | #129 of 193 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.8% | #529 of 1,045 | #103 of 135 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
503
-1 (0%) vs 2020
-51% since 1990-91, when it was 1,027
Student : Teacher
13.1:1
was 12.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 503 | 38.5 | 13.1:1 | 96% (484) |
| 2023-24 | 484 | 41.2 | 11.8:1 | 100% (484) |
| 2022-23 | 475 | 41.2 | 11.5:1 | 100% (475) |
| 2020-21 | 504 | 41 | 12.3:1 | 99% (501) |
| 2017-18 | 577 | 37.2 | 15.5:1 | 100% (577) |
| 2015-16 | 569 | 28 | 20.3:1 | 100% (569) |
| 2010-11 | 464 | 31 | 15.0:1 | 87% (404) |
| 2000-01 | 859 | 47 | 18.3:1 | 90% (775) |
| 1990-91 | 1,027 | 54 | 19.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lea Henry C School.
Since 2017-18: students down 13% (577 to 503); teachers up 3% (37.2 to 38.5).
About Lea Henry C School
In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Lea Henry C School is a mid-sized elementary school. It is open to students in pre-K through 8 and enrolls 503 students.
Philadelphia City SD serves 116,230 students across 220 schools.
Black students are 56% of those enrolled at Lea Henry C School. The remaining shares are 18% Asian, 12% White, 7% Hispanic, and 6% multiracial. Census estimates put the Black share of Philadelphia County's population at about 39%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 63, compared with 70 nationally.
Lea Henry C School lists 38.5 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 13.1 students per teacher. It is about the same as the 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 96% of the student body. That is in line with the 95% average for public schools in Philadelphia County.
Among Pennsylvania public elementary schools, Lea Henry C School outscored 19%, which works out to a C- on the allk12 Grade.
In Pennsylvania, Lea Henry C School is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 30.5% actual against a predicted 36.4%.
The school's county is Philadelphia County. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $61,953 a year, roughly 35% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 17% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Philadelphia County number 309, with about 182,005 students.
A public school about 0.1 miles away, The Workshop School, is the closest to Lea Henry C School. Lea Henry C School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. The school's 30.5% average proficiency ranks 2nd among 7 nearby schools.
NCES assigns Lea Henry C School the locale City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment held near 503, starting from 504.
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Philadelphia County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,579,706
Census ACS
Median income
$61,953
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
17%
Below federal line
Schools in county
309
182,005 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Philadelphia City SD
- Northeast High SchoolHigh · 3,463 students
- Lincoln High SchoolHigh · 2,472 students
- Central High SchoolHigh · 2,329 students
- Northeast Community Propel AcademyElementary · 1,783 students
- Mayfair SchoolElementary · 1,763 students
- Washington George High SchoolHigh · 1,755 students
Other schools in Philadelphia
- Northeast High SchoolHigh · 3,463 students
- Philadelphia Performing Arts CSCombined · 2,572 students
- Lincoln High SchoolHigh · 2,472 students
- Central High SchoolHigh · 2,329 students
- MaST Community CS IICombined · 1,875 students
- First Philadelphia Preparatory CSCombined · 1,831 students
Nearby schools
- The Workshop School0.1 mi · 214
- West Philadelphia High School0.3 mi · 718
- KIPP Philadelphia Octavius Catto CS0.4 mi · 398
- Penn Alexander School0.4 mi · 595
- Global Leadership Academy CS Southwest at Huey0.6 mi · 586
- Locke Alain School0.6 mi · 264
Frequently asked questions
About Lea Henry C SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Lea Henry C School?
Lea Henry C School enrolls approximately 503 students in grades PK-08.
What grades does Lea Henry C School serve?
Lea Henry C School serves grades PK-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Lea Henry C School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Lea Henry C School is approximately 13.1:1 (38 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Lea Henry C School?
Student demographics at Lea Henry C School are roughly 12% White, 7% Hispanic, 56% Black, 18% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees Lea Henry C School?
Lea Henry C School is overseen by Philadelphia City SD in Philadelphia County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.