Marshall John Sch
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedWhat this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 16 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 9 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 15% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 37% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Marshall John Sch
Set in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Marshall John Sch is a close-knit elementary campus, overseen by Philadelphia City SD. It hosts 250 students across grades K through 5. That puts it 44% leaner than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 443 students.
Philadelphia City SD runs 220 schools in total, collectively educating 116,230 students. Marshall John Sch is one of those campuses.
On demographics, Marshall John Sch lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest breaks down as 44% Black, 7% White, 2% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 16%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. Around 94% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Marshall John Sch sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 37.1%; actual is 15.4%, a gap of -21.8 points.
In the area at large, census data for Philadelphia County shows the typical household earns roughly $61,953 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 17%. Across Philadelphia County's 309 public schools (combined enrollment of about 182,005 students), Marshall John Sch is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Stearne Allen M Sch, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Marshall John Sch at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 18.3%.
Marshall John Sch operates from an urban location.
Five-year trend. Marshall John Sch's enrollment has edged down 33% since 2018, when it stood at 375 (now 250). Hispanic enrollment moved from 31% to 47% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 19.6:1 in 2018 to 9.6:1 today.
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