Overbrook HS

Overbrook HS, a close-knit high school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, overseen by Philadelphia City SD, instructs 440 students, covering grades 9 through 12. That puts it 40% leaner than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 738 students.

Philadelphia City SD comprises 220 schools with combined enrollment of 116,230 students; Overbrook HS is among them.

On demographics, Overbrook HS lists that nearly all students (90%) are Black. Beyond that, the school reports 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 39%.

On the resource side, On paper, Overbrook HS has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. About 89% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Overbrook HS falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 39.5%; this one comes in at 12.8%, -26.7 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Philadelphia County) logs that median household earnings sit near $61,953, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 HS is one.

The closest other public school is Overbrook Elementary School, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Overbrook HS ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 16.3%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 20%: 553 students in 2018 compared to 440 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 19.3:1 today.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. Members of the school community can share what they know.