Lewis C Cassidy Academics Plus Sch

Lewis C Cassidy Academics Plus Sch operates as a cozy elementary campus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Philadelphia City SD. Current enrollment sits at 303 students spanning grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 32% smaller than the state mean of about 443.

Philadelphia City SD runs 220 schools in total, collectively educating 116,230 students. Lewis C Cassidy Academics Plus Sch is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Lewis C Cassidy Academics Plus Sch shows that nearly all students (88%) are Black. The remainder comes out to 8% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Philadelphia County as a whole is about 39% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Lewis C Cassidy Academics Plus Sch shows 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.4:1. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 72% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Philadelphia County's rate of about 95%.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Lewis C Cassidy Academics Plus Sch sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 46.9%; actual is 11.1%, a gap of -35.8 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Philadelphia County put 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. In all, Philadelphia County runs 309 public schools (combined enrollment of about 182,005 students), of which Lewis C Cassidy Academics Plus Sch is one.

Nearest neighbor: Harambee Institute of Science and Technology CS, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Lewis C Cassidy Academics Plus Sch at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 19.9%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lewis C Cassidy Academics Plus Sch has shrank 26%, going from 407 students in 2018 to 303 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 1% to 8% over that span. Class-load math has rose: from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 in 2025.

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