Mayfair Sch

Mayfair Sch, a high-enrollment elementary-level community in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, run under Philadelphia City SD, instructs 1,763 students, covering grades K through 8. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Mayfair Sch sits 298% bigger than that benchmark.

Mayfair Sch is one of 220 schools operated by Philadelphia City SD, a district that caters to 116,230 students overall.

On demographics, Mayfair Sch lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 43%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 25% Asian, 22% White, 7% Black, 2% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 16%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Mayfair Sch has 104 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Mayfair Sch higher than the state norm the norm. About 96% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Mayfair Sch tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 36.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 33.1%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Philadelphia County indicate the typical household earns roughly $61,953 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 17%. In all, Philadelphia County runs 309 public schools (combined enrollment of about 182,005 students), of which Mayfair Sch is one.

The closest other public school is Lincoln HS, roughly 0.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mayfair Sch ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 25.1%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mayfair Sch has edged up 8%, going from 1,629 students in 2018 to 1,763 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 25% to 43% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 22.4:1 in 2018 to 17.0:1 in 2025.

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