Mifflin Thomas Sch

Mifflin Thomas Sch, a moderately sized elementary-level community in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Philadelphia City SD, enrolls 393 students, covering grades pre-K through 8.

Within Philadelphia City SD, which oversees 220 schools and 116,230 students, Mifflin Thomas Sch is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Mifflin Thomas Sch shows that Black students make up the majority at 55%. The remainder is composed of 22% White, 11% Hispanic, 9% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 39%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.1:1 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.

With demographic context factored in, Mifflin Thomas Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 35.4%; this one delivers 37.9%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Philadelphia County) shows that median household income runs about $61,953, 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), Mifflin Thomas Sch is one campus in the mix.

Philadelphia Hebrew Public CS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mifflin Thomas Sch. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mifflin Thomas Sch ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 24.7%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Mifflin Thomas Sch's enrollment has ticked up 19% since 2018, when it stood at 329 (now 393). Black enrollment moved from 80% to 55% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 today.

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