Enrollment
285
Elementary
DISTRICT 474 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PHILADELPHIA CITY SD·NCES 421899003611
McMichael Morton School
3543 Fairmount Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19104 · (215) 400-7750 · Philadelphia County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL285 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 2% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Pennsylvania public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
10.1:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.6:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
98%
280 students
DISTRICT 99% · STATE 75%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 19 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 22 | 8% |
| Grade 1 | 30 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 28 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 24 | 8% |
| Grade 4 | 23 | 8% |
| Grade 5 | 40 | 14% |
| Grade 6 | 37 | 13% |
| Grade 7 | 31 | 11% |
| Grade 8 | 31 | 11% |
This year's kindergarten class (22) is 29% smaller than its 8th grade class (31).
Student demographics
13%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
13.0%
PA avg 51.1% . -1.5pp since 2023
Math
5.0%
PA avg 43.0% . +0.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 13 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 5 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 13.0% | 5.0% |
| 2023-24 | 14.5% | 4.7% |
% Proficient or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: PSSA + Keystone. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of PA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
10.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
35.5%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-25.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 10% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 35% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like McMichael Morton School
McMichael Morton School's state test result (10.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| McMichael Morton School this school | 285 | 98.2% | 10.0% |
| Urban Pathways K-5 College CS Pittsburgh | 304 | 95.7% | 8.1% |
| Propel CS-Northside Pittsburgh | 316 | 99.1% | 13.5% |
| Blaine James G School Philadelphia | 332 | 97.3% | 6.3% |
| Samuel Pennypacker School Philadelphia | 328 | 99.1% | 14.4% |
| W B Evans Elementary School Yeadon | 304 | 100.0% | 37.0% |
Matched among Pennsylvania elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where McMichael Morton School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Philadelphia County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 10.0% | #1,377 of 1,396 | #149 of 161 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 5.0% | #1,481 of 1,511 ▼ 15 | #174 of 193 ▼ 18 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 13.0% | #1,454 of 1,511 ▲ 14 | #168 of 193 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 285 | #1,302 of 1,638 | #160 of 194 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.1:1 | #95 of 1,528 | #31 of 189 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 12.7% | #1,359 of 1,531 | #171 of 189 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 98.2% | #443 of 1,600 | #106 of 193 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -28.8% | #122 of 1,045 | #61 of 135 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
285
-30 (-10%) vs 2020
-58% since 1990-91, when it was 678
Student : Teacher
10.1:1
was 10.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 285 | 28.2 | 10.1:1 | 98% (280) |
| 2023-24 | 280 | 27.2 | 10.3:1 | 100% (280) |
| 2022-23 | 294 | 29.2 | 10.1:1 | 100% (294) |
| 2020-21 | 315 | 30 | 10.5:1 | 99% (312) |
| 2017-18 | 400 | 22 | 18.2:1 | 99% (395) |
| 2015-16 | 411 | 29 | 14.2:1 | 100% (411) |
| 2010-11 | 399 | 23 | 17.4:1 | 86% (344) |
| 2000-01 | 607 | 42 | 14.4:1 | 98% (595) |
| 1990-91 | 678 | 41 | 16.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for McMichael Morton School.
Since 2017-18: students down 29% (400 to 285); teachers up 28% (22 to 28.2).
About McMichael Morton School
McMichael Morton School operates as a small elementary school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It has an enrollment of 285 students in pre-K through 8. Across elementary schools in Pennsylvania, the average enrollment is about 443.
Philadelphia City SD serves 116,230 students across 220 schools.
Roughly 93% of students at McMichael Morton School are Black. Other groups make up 4% Hispanic. County-wide, 39% of Philadelphia County residents are Black. The diversity index for McMichael Morton School is 13%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
McMichael Morton School has 28.2 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.1:1. The gap from the 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania is 3.0 students per teacher. At McMichael Morton School, 98% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25.
Among Pennsylvania public elementary schools, McMichael Morton School outscored 2%, which works out to an F on the allk12 Grade.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for McMichael Morton School is -25.5 points, in the bottom 10% of Pennsylvania. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 10.0%, and the predicted rate is 35.5%.
For the population of Philadelphia County, median household income comes to about $61,953, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 17% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Philadelphia County counts 309 public schools with about 182,005 students.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Belmont CS, is about 0.5 miles. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Of the 6 nearby schools with scores, including this one, McMichael Morton School is 6th on average proficiency.
Federal records code the school's setting as City: Large.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 285, compared with 315 in 2020-21.
The allk12 page for McMichael Morton School lets the school community talk about special education services, counseling, and support programs. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Philadelphia County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,579,706
Census ACS
Median income
$61,953
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
17%
Below federal line
Schools in county
309
182,005 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Philadelphia City SD
- Northeast High SchoolHigh · 3,463 students
- Lincoln High SchoolHigh · 2,472 students
- Central High SchoolHigh · 2,329 students
- Northeast Community Propel AcademyElementary · 1,783 students
- Mayfair SchoolElementary · 1,763 students
- Washington George High SchoolHigh · 1,755 students
Other schools in Philadelphia
- Northeast High SchoolHigh · 3,463 students
- Philadelphia Performing Arts CSCombined · 2,572 students
- Lincoln High SchoolHigh · 2,472 students
- Central High SchoolHigh · 2,329 students
- MaST Community CS IICombined · 1,875 students
- First Philadelphia Preparatory CSCombined · 1,831 students
Nearby schools
- Belmont CS0.5 mi · 959
- Science Leadership Academy Middle School0.6 mi · 353
- Powel Samuel School0.6 mi · 324
- School of the Future0.8 mi · 569
- Robeson HS for Human Services0.9 mi · 266
- Philadelphia Learning Academy - West0.9 mi · 99
Frequently asked questions
About McMichael Morton SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at McMichael Morton School?
McMichael Morton School enrolls approximately 285 students in grades PK-08.
Is McMichael Morton School an elementary, middle, or high school?
McMichael Morton School is an elementary school covering grades PK-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at McMichael Morton School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at McMichael Morton School is approximately 10.1:1 (28 FTE teachers).
How diverse is McMichael Morton School?
McMichael Morton School reports a student body of 1% White, 4% Hispanic, 93% Black, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees McMichael Morton School?
McMichael Morton School is overseen by Philadelphia City SD in Philadelphia County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.