Maritime Academy CS

Maritime Academy CS is a combined-grade school of small scale in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, run under Maritime Academy CS, educateing 829 students in grades K through 12. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 1,819 students each, so Maritime Academy CS sits 54% leaner than that benchmark.

Maritime Academy CS is a school of Maritime Academy CS, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

Demographically, Maritime Academy CS reports that the largest single group is Hispanic at 45%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 31% White, 16% Black, 5% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, Philadelphia County as a whole is about 16% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Maritime Academy CS has 69 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.1:1. The state averages around 15.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 92% of students at Maritime Academy CS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Maritime Academy CS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.0%, the actual is 25.0%, a residual of -13.0 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Philadelphia County indicate the typical household earns roughly $61,953 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 17%. Across Philadelphia County's 309 public schools (combined enrollment of about 182,005 students), Maritime Academy CS is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Franklin Towne CHS, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Maritime Academy CS ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 30.9%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting. As a public charter, Maritime Academy CS runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Maritime Academy CS has showed little movement, going from 818 students in 2018 to 829 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 30% to 45% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 today.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.