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Enrollment
845
Elementary
DISTRICT 474 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PHILADELPHIA CITY SD·NCES 421899003801
Pollock Robert B School
2875 Welsh Rd, Philadelphia, PA 19152 · (215) 400-3210 · Philadelphia County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL845 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 24% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Pennsylvania public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.8:1
50 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.6:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
88%
745 students
DISTRICT 99% · STATE 75%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 94 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 105 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 94 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 100 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 87 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 82 | 10% |
| Grade 6 | 101 | 12% |
| Grade 7 | 90 | 11% |
| Grade 8 | 92 | 11% |
This year's kindergarten class (94) is about the same size as its 8th grade class (92).
Student demographics
76%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
37.4%
PA avg 51.1% . -6.2pp since 2023
Math
32.3%
PA avg 43.0% . +6.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 37 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 32 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 37.4% | 32.3% |
| 2023-24 | 43.6% | 26.2% |
% Proficient or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: PSSA + Keystone. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
36.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.8%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 36% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Pennsylvania's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Pollock Robert B School
Pollock Robert B School's state test result (36.1% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pollock Robert B School this school | 845 | 88.2% | 36.1% |
| Holme Thomas School Philadelphia | 850 | 93.2% | 34.6% |
| Fitzpatrick Aloysius L School Philadelphia | 906 | 93.5% | 32.5% |
| Sara Lindemuth Elementary School Harrisburg | 758 | 73.2% | N/A |
| Thomas W Holtzman Jr Elementary School Harrisburg | 792 | 72.9% | 24.9% |
| Decatur Stephen School Philadelphia | 1,028 | 94.0% | 46.4% |
Matched among Pennsylvania elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Pollock Robert B School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Philadelphia County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 36.1% | #1,106 of 1,396 | #41 of 161 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 32.3% | #1,119 of 1,511 ▲ 67 | #39 of 193 ▲ 11 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 37.4% | #1,073 of 1,511 ▼ 13 | #46 of 193 ▼ 11 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 845 | #61 of 1,638 | #23 of 194 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.8:1 | #1,450 of 1,528 | #167 of 189 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 76.0% | #14 of 1,531 | #2 of 189 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 88.2% | #668 of 1,600 | #176 of 193 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +36.7% | #25 of 450 | #3 of 48 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
845
+271 (+47%) vs 2020
+84% since 1990-91, when it was 459
Student : Teacher
16.8:1
was 14.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 845 | 50.3 | 16.8:1 | 88% (745) |
| 2023-24 | 744 | 46.8 | 15.9:1 | N/A |
| 2022-23 | 685 | 46.7 | 14.7:1 | 100% (685) |
| 2020-21 | 574 | 39 | 14.7:1 | 99% (571) |
| 2017-18 | 618 | 36.1 | 17.1:1 | 100% (617) |
| 2015-16 | 726 | 28 | 25.9:1 | 100% (726) |
| 2010-11 | 755 | 43 | 17.6:1 | 59% (445) |
| 2000-01 | 495 | 26 | 19.0:1 | 43% (214) |
| 1990-91 | 459 | 25 | 18.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Pollock Robert B School.
Since 2017-18: students up 37% (618 to 845); teachers up 39% (36.1 to 50.3).
About Pollock Robert B School
Pollock Robert B School is a public elementary school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Classes run from kindergarten through 8, and the school has 845 students. Against the 443-student average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania, enrollment here is 91% higher.
In Philadelphia City SD, 220 schools enroll a combined 116,230 students.
At Pollock Robert B School, the largest share of students is Black, at 31%. It is also 24% Hispanic, 22% White, 20% Asian, and 3% multiracial. For comparison, the population of Philadelphia County is roughly 39% Black. Pick two students at random and there is a 76% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Federal data list 50.3 full-time-equivalent teachers at Pollock Robert B School in 2024-25, for a ratio of 16.8:1. That is 3.7 students per teacher above the 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 88%.
Measured against Pennsylvania public elementary schools, Pollock Robert B School receives a C-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Pollock Robert B School is 3.7 points below its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests (36.1% versus 39.8%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Pennsylvania.
County data help place the school in context: in Philadelphia County, the median household income is $61,953, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 35%, and about 17% of people live in poverty. In all, Philadelphia County has 309 public schools and roughly 182,005 students.
Brown Joseph School is the closest public school, about 1.1 miles away in a straight line. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Pollock Robert B School. On state test proficiency, Pollock Robert B School ranks 2nd in a group of 9 nearby schools.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as City: Large, meaning it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment was 574 in 2020-21 and 845 in 2024-25. Large swings like this can come from changes to the grades a school serves. Students per teacher rose from 14.7 in 2020-21 to 16.8 in 2024-25.
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Philadelphia County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,579,706
Census ACS
Median income
$61,953
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
17%
Below federal line
Schools in county
309
182,005 students
Quick facts
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- MaST Community CS IICombined · 1,875 students
- First Philadelphia Preparatory CSCombined · 1,831 students
Nearby schools
- Brown Joseph School1.1 mi · 441
- Northeast Community Propel Academy1.2 mi · 1,783
- Holme Thomas School1.3 mi · 850
- Lincoln High School1.3 mi · 2,472
- Farrell Louis H School1.4 mi · 1,187
- Rhawnhurst School1.6 mi · 621
Frequently asked questions
About Pollock Robert B SchoolHow many students attend Pollock Robert B School?
Pollock Robert B School enrolls approximately 845 students in grades KG-08.
Is Pollock Robert B School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Pollock Robert B School is an elementary school covering grades KG-08.
How many teachers does Pollock Robert B School have?
Pollock Robert B School employs 50 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.8:1.
What is the student diversity at Pollock Robert B School?
Student demographics at Pollock Robert B School are roughly 22% White, 24% Hispanic, 31% Black, 20% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is Pollock Robert B School in?
Pollock Robert B School is part of Philadelphia City SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.