Mastery Prep Elementary CS

Mastery Prep Elementary CS operates as a reasonably sized elementary school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, overseen by Mastery Prep Elementary CS. Current enrollment sits at 598 students spanning grades K through 6. That puts it 35% above the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 443 students.

Mastery Prep Elementary CS sits inside Mastery Prep Elementary CS, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Mastery Prep Elementary CS reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (85%). Other groups include 11% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Philadelphia County as a whole is about 39% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 99% of students at Mastery Prep Elementary CS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Mastery Prep Elementary CS tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 35.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 25.9%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Philadelphia County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $61,953 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 17% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Philadelphia County runs 309 public schools (combined enrollment of about 182,005 students), of which Mastery Prep Elementary CS is one.

Nearest neighbor: Mastery CS-Gratz Campus, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mastery Prep Elementary CS. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Mastery Prep Elementary CS at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 18.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area. Mastery Prep Elementary CS operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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