Penrose Sch

Penrose Sch operates as a tight-knit K-5 school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, run under Philadelphia City SD. Current enrollment sits at 360 students spanning grades K through 8.

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

On the student-mix side, Penrose Sch logs that 79% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder consists of 9% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 5% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 39%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Penrose Sch has 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. About 105% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Philadelphia County runs at roughly 95%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Penrose Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.7%, the actual is 23.1%, a residual of -9.6 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Philadelphia County indicate median household income runs about $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), Penrose Sch is one campus in the mix.

Colwyn El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Penrose Sch at 3rd of 6; the average score across the group is 21.0%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 31%: 519 students in 2018 compared to 360 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 2% to 9% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 8.7:1 today.

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