Pollock Robert B Sch

As a high-enrollment primary school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pollock Robert B Sch enrolls 845 students from grades K through 8, run under Philadelphia City SD. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Pollock Robert B Sch sits 91% above that benchmark.

Across the 220 schools in Philadelphia City SD (116,230 students total), Pollock Robert B Sch accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Pollock Robert B Sch reports that the most-represented group is Black (31%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 24% Hispanic, 22% White, 20% Asian, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 39% Black, putting the school's mix visibly less Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Pollock Robert B Sch higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 88% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Pollock Robert B Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.8%, the actual is 36.1%, a residual of -3.7 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Philadelphia County indicate median household earnings sit near $61,953, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 17%. Pollock Robert B Sch is one of 309 public schools in Philadelphia County (combined enrollment of about 182,005 students).

Brown Joseph Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Pollock Robert B Sch comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 31.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Over the past 7-year window. Pollock Robert B Sch's enrollment has ticked up 37% since 2018, when it stood at 618 (now 845). Over the same period, the Asian share climbed from 11% to 20%.

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