Overbrook Edu Ctr

Overbrook Edu Ctr is an elementary campus of low-enrollment scale in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, part of Philadelphia City SD, enrolling 259 students in grades K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 42% smaller than typical.

Philadelphia City SD runs 220 schools in total, collectively educating 116,230 students. Overbrook Edu Ctr is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Overbrook Edu Ctr logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (93%). The remainder comes out to 4% Hispanic. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 39%.

Looking at school resources, Overbrook Edu Ctr logs 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Overbrook Edu Ctr tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 34.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 28.3%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Philadelphia County indicate median household earnings sit near $61,953, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 17%. In all, Philadelphia County runs 309 public schools (combined enrollment of about 182,005 students), of which Overbrook Edu Ctr is one.

Nearest neighbor: Harambee Institute of Science and Technology CS, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Overbrook Edu Ctr. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Overbrook Edu Ctr ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 17.0%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Looking at the recent track record. Overbrook Edu Ctr's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 259 (now 259). Over the same period, the Black share ticked up from 83% to 93%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 9.6:1 today.

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