Lea Henry C Sch

Lea Henry C Sch is one of the medium-sized primary schools in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, run under Philadelphia City SD, with 503 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8.

Philadelphia City SD comprises 220 schools with combined enrollment of 116,230 students; Lea Henry C Sch is among them.

In terms of who attends, Lea Henry C Sch shows that Black students make up the majority at 56%; the rest breaks down as 18% Asian, 12% White, 7% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Philadelphia County as a whole is about 39% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 96% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Lea Henry C Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.4%, the actual is 30.5%, a residual of -5.9 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Philadelphia County indicate median household earnings sit near $61,953, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 17%. In all, Philadelphia County runs 309 public schools (combined enrollment of about 182,005 students), of which Lea Henry C Sch is one.

The Workshop School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lea Henry C Sch. On composite proficiency, Lea Henry C Sch comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 26.6%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Five-year trend. Lea Henry C Sch's enrollment has edged down 13% since 2018, when it stood at 577 (now 503). Over the same period, the Black share declined from 74% to 56%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 in 2025.

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