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Mastery CS-Pickett Campus
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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%.
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