Mitchell El Sch

As a low-enrollment elementary school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Mitchell El Sch works with 283 students from grades pre-K through 8, one of the schools within Philadelphia City SD. Enrollment runs roughly 36% below the state mean of about 443.

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

On the student-mix side, Mitchell El Sch reports that 90% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 6% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Philadelphia County as a whole is about 39% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 104% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Philadelphia County runs at roughly 95%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Mitchell El Sch sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 32.9%; actual is 10.5%, a gap of -22.4 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Philadelphia County) reports that median household income runs about $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. Across Philadelphia County's 309 public schools (combined enrollment of about 182,005 students), Mitchell El Sch is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Independence CS West, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mitchell El Sch. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Mitchell El Sch at 5th of 6; the average score across the group is 20.1%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 45%: 511 students in 2018 compared to 283 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 10.5:1 today.

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