Locke Alain Sch

Locke Alain Sch is an elementary-level community of modestly sized scale in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Philadelphia City SD, instructing 264 students in grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 40% below the state mean of about 443.

Locke Alain Sch is one of 220 schools operated by Philadelphia City SD, a district that works with 116,230 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Locke Alain Sch logs that Black students make up the majority at 77%. The remainder breaks down as 9% Asian, 8% Hispanic, 3% White, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 39% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Locke Alain Sch has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. Around 99% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Locke Alain Sch is in the bottom 10% of Pennsylvania public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 35.2%; Locke Alain Sch posts 15.5%, -19.7 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, Philadelphia County reports that median household earnings sit near $61,953, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 17% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Philadelphia County's 309 public schools (combined enrollment of about 182,005 students), Locke Alain Sch is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: KIPP Philadelphia Octavius Catto CS, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Locke Alain Sch comes 2nd of 4 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 16.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Locke Alain Sch's enrollment has decreased 38% since 2018, when it stood at 426 (now 264). The Black share of enrollment edged down from 81% to 77% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 9.8:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.