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What's something Marshall Thurgood does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
639
Elementary
DISTRICT 474 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PHILADELPHIA CITY SD·NCES 421899000329
Marshall Thurgood
5120 N 6th St, Philadelphia, PA 19120 · (215) 400-3770 · Philadelphia County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL639 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 6% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Pennsylvania public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.8:1
50 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.6:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
98%
628 students
DISTRICT 99% · STATE 75%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 36 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 63 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 72 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 61 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 66 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 48 | 8% |
| Grade 5 | 69 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 58 | 9% |
| Grade 7 | 81 | 13% |
| Grade 8 | 85 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (63) is 26% smaller than its 8th grade class (85).
Student demographics
53%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
19.8%
PA avg 51.1% . -3.9pp since 2023
Math
7.8%
PA avg 43.0% . +0.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 20 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 8 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 4 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 19.8% | 7.8% |
| 2023-24 | 23.7% | 7.0% |
% Proficient or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: PSSA + Keystone. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of PA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
16.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
35.5%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-19.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 16% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 35% 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.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Marshall Thurgood
Marshall Thurgood's state test result (16.4% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marshall Thurgood this school | 639 | 98.3% | 16.4% |
| Mastery CS-Smedley Campus Philadelphia | 751 | 99.6% | 26.3% |
| McKinley School York | 578 | 97.9% | 17.6% |
| Carnell Laura H School Philadelphia | 639 | 99.7% | 14.2% |
| Jackson School York | 501 | 97.4% | 10.9% |
| The Philadelphia CS for Arts and Sciences at HR Edmunds Philadelphia | 885 | 94.8% | 12.8% |
Matched among Pennsylvania elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Marshall Thurgood ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Philadelphia County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 16.4% | #1,325 of 1,396 | #115 of 161 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 7.8% | #1,448 of 1,511 ▼ 9 | #152 of 193 ▼ 11 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 19.8% | #1,360 of 1,511 ▼ 1 | #121 of 193 ▼ 9 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 639 | #196 of 1,638 | #47 of 194 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.8:1 | #697 of 1,528 | #83 of 189 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 53.3% | #480 of 1,531 | #72 of 189 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 98.3% | #439 of 1,600 | #105 of 193 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -21.9% | #244 of 1,045 | #87 of 135 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
639
-39 (-6%) vs 2020
-22% since 2000-01, when it was 823
Student : Teacher
12.8:1
was 13.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 639 | 50 | 12.8:1 | 98% (628) |
| 2023-24 | 628 | 56 | 11.2:1 | 100% (628) |
| 2022-23 | 619 | 46.1 | 13.4:1 | 100% (619) |
| 2020-21 | 678 | 51 | 13.3:1 | 100% (675) |
| 2017-18 | 818 | 44.5 | 18.4:1 | 100% (817) |
| 2015-16 | 772 | 43 | 17.9:1 | 100% (772) |
| 2010-11 | 776 | 47 | 16.5:1 | 93% (718) |
| 2000-01 | 823 | 43 | 19.1:1 | 86% (710) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Marshall Thurgood.
Since 2017-18: students down 22% (818 to 639); teachers up 12% (44.5 to 50).
About Marshall Thurgood
Marshall Thurgood is a medium-sized elementary school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, one of the schools in Philadelphia City SD. Grades offered run from pre-K through 8, with 639 students enrolled. For comparison, elementary schools in Pennsylvania average about 443 students.
Philadelphia City SD has 116,230 students in 220 schools, and Marshall Thurgood is one of those schools.
Marshall Thurgood's enrollment is 58% Black. The remaining shares are 36% Hispanic and 4% Asian. Census estimates put the Black share of Philadelphia County's population at about 39%. Marshall Thurgood has a diversity index of 53%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Teachers at Marshall Thurgood total 50 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 12.8:1. Elementary schools in Pennsylvania have a similar average ratio of 13.1:1. The school counts 628 students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, or 98%.
allk12 grades Marshall Thurgood a D. The grade compares the school only with Pennsylvania public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
In Pennsylvania, Marshall Thurgood is one of the bottom 10% of schools on BeatsExpectations, with an average proficiency rate on state tests of 16.4% compared with a predicted 35.5%.
According to the American Community Survey, in Philadelphia County, median household income is about $61,953, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 17% of residents live below the federal poverty line. A total of 309 public schools operate in Philadelphia County, serving about 182,005 students.
The nearest other public school, Lindley Academy CS at Birney, is about 0.2 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Marshall Thurgood. Of the 5 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Marshall Thurgood is 2nd on average proficiency.
The school's federal locale classification is City: Large.
Enrollment was 678 in 2020-21 and 639 in 2024-25, a decrease of 39 students.
Threads on this page can be about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Philadelphia County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,579,706
Census ACS
Median income
$61,953
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
17%
Below federal line
Schools in county
309
182,005 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Philadelphia City SD
- Northeast High SchoolHigh · 3,463 students
- Lincoln High SchoolHigh · 2,472 students
- Central High SchoolHigh · 2,329 students
- Northeast Community Propel AcademyElementary · 1,783 students
- Mayfair SchoolElementary · 1,763 students
- Washington George High SchoolHigh · 1,755 students
Other schools in Philadelphia
- Northeast High SchoolHigh · 3,463 students
- Philadelphia Performing Arts CSCombined · 2,572 students
- Lincoln High SchoolHigh · 2,472 students
- Central High SchoolHigh · 2,329 students
- MaST Community CS IICombined · 1,875 students
- First Philadelphia Preparatory CSCombined · 1,831 students
Nearby schools
- Lindley Academy CS at Birney0.2 mi · 739
- Morrison Andrew J School0.3 mi · 508
- Olney High School0.6 mi · 1,168
- Cooke Jay Middle School0.7 mi · 369
- Olney Elementary School0.7 mi · 654
- Lowell James R School0.8 mi · 503
Frequently asked questions
About Marshall ThurgoodWhat is the total enrollment at Marshall Thurgood?
Marshall Thurgood enrolls approximately 639 students in grades PK-08.
What age range does Marshall Thurgood serve?
Marshall Thurgood serves students from grade PK through grade 08.
How many teachers does Marshall Thurgood have?
Marshall Thurgood employs 50 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.8:1.
What is the student diversity at Marshall Thurgood?
Student demographics at Marshall Thurgood are roughly 0% White, 36% Hispanic, 58% Black, 4% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is Marshall Thurgood in?
Marshall Thurgood is part of Philadelphia City SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.