McMichael Morton Sch

McMichael Morton Sch operates as a modestly sized primary school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, run under Philadelphia City SD. Current enrollment sits at 285 students spanning grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 36% smaller than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 443 students.

Philadelphia City SD comprises 220 schools with combined enrollment of 116,230 students; McMichael Morton Sch is among them.

Looking at the student body, McMichael Morton Sch reports that nearly all students (93%) are Black. The remainder breaks down as 4% Hispanic. By comparison, Philadelphia County as a whole is about 39% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.1:1. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 98% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, McMichael Morton Sch is in the bottom 10% of Pennsylvania public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 35.5%; McMichael Morton Sch posts 10.0%, -25.5 points below that line.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Philadelphia County) logs that median household earnings sit near $61,953, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 17% of residents live below the federal poverty line. McMichael Morton Sch is one of 309 public schools in Philadelphia County (combined enrollment of about 182,005 students).

Nearest neighbor: Belmont CS, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), McMichael Morton Sch ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 29.9%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 29%: 400 students in 2018 compared to 285 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 18.2:1 in 2018 to 10.1:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.