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Mastery CS-Pickett Campus
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedWhat this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 33 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 11 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 21% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 36% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Pennsylvania's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Mastery CS-Pickett Campus
Mastery CS-Pickett Campus is one of the reasonably sized 9-12 campuss in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, overseen by Mastery CS-Pickett Campus, with 929 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 12. That puts it 26% larger than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 738 students.
Mastery CS-Pickett Campus is a school of Mastery CS-Pickett Campus, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Mastery CS-Pickett Campus shows that 92% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 4% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 39% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Around 98% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Mastery CS-Pickett Campus tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 35.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 21.1%.
Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Philadelphia County) shows that 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), Mastery CS-Pickett Campus is one campus in the mix.
Lingelbach Anna L Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Mastery CS-Pickett Campus at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 28.1%.
Mastery CS-Pickett Campus operates from an urban location. Mastery CS-Pickett Campus is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.
Five-year trend. Mastery CS-Pickett Campus's enrollment has increased 8% since 2018, when it stood at 864 (now 929). Over the same period, the Black share contracted from 97% to 92%.
On allk12, the feed for Mastery CS-Pickett Campus typically covers enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.
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