Peirce Thomas M Sch

Peirce Thomas M Sch operates as a low-enrollment K-5 school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Philadelphia City SD. Current enrollment sits at 270 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Peirce Thomas M Sch sits 39% below that benchmark.

Peirce Thomas M Sch is one of 220 schools operated by Philadelphia City SD, a district that educates 116,230 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Peirce Thomas M Sch lists that nearly all students (93%) are Black. Beyond that, the school records 6% Hispanic. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 39%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. Around 70% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Philadelphia County runs at roughly 95%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Peirce Thomas M Sch falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 47.6%; this one comes in at 10.5%, -37.1 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Philadelphia County put the typical household earns roughly $61,953 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 17%. Across Philadelphia County's 309 public schools (combined enrollment of about 182,005 students), Peirce Thomas M Sch is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Dobbins Area Vocational-Technical High School, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Peirce Thomas M Sch ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 11.8%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Peirce Thomas M Sch has edged down 42%, going from 466 students in 2018 to 270 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 2% to 6% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 today.

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