Moffet John Sch

Moffet John Sch is an intimate elementary school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Philadelphia City SD. The school works with 215 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 51% below the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 443 students.

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

In terms of who attends, Moffet John Sch logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 40%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 26% White, 22% Black, 6% Asian, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Philadelphia County as a whole is about 16% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. Roughly 104% of students at Moffet John Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Philadelphia County's rate of about 95%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Moffet John Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.9%, the actual is 41.1%, a residual of +8.1 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Philadelphia County) records that median household income runs about $61,953, 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 Moffet John Sch is one.

Kensington Creative & Performing Arts HS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Moffet John Sch comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 33.5%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. Moffet John Sch's enrollment has decreased 30% since 2018, when it stood at 309 (now 215). White enrollment moved from 8% to 26% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 9.7:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, the feed for Moffet John Sch typically covers enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.