Morton Thomas G Sch

Morton Thomas G Sch operates as a modestly sized primary school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, part of Philadelphia City SD. Current enrollment sits at 356 students spanning grades K through 5.

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

On the student-mix side, Morton Thomas G Sch logs that 79% of the student body identifies as Black. Other groups include 12% Hispanic, 4% Asian, 2% White, 2% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 39%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, Morton Thomas G Sch sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 35.1%; actual is 16.7%, a gap of -18.4 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Philadelphia County indicate 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. Across Philadelphia County's 309 public schools (combined enrollment of about 182,005 students), Morton Thomas G Sch is one campus in the mix.

Tilden William T MS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Morton Thomas G Sch. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Morton Thomas G Sch at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 17.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 42%: 618 students in 2018 compared to 356 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 2% to 12% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 in 2025.

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