Randolph A. Philip Area Vocational-Technical High School

Randolph A. Philip Area Vocational-Technical High School is one of the cozy four-year high schools in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, part of Philadelphia City SD, with 437 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 41% leaner than the state mean of about 738.

Randolph A. Philip Area Vocational-Technical High School is one of 220 schools operated by Philadelphia City SD, a district that enrolls 116,230 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Randolph A. Philip Area Vocational-Technical High School records that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (82%); the rest breaks down as 11% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% White. The wider county runs roughly 39% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Randolph A. Philip Area Vocational-Technical High School has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting Randolph A. Philip Area Vocational-Technical High School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 100% of students at Randolph A. Philip Area Vocational-Technical High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Randolph A. Philip Area Vocational-Technical High School is in the bottom 10% of Pennsylvania public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 34.8%; Randolph A. Philip Area Vocational-Technical High School posts 17.6%, -17.2 points below that line.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Philadelphia County indicate the typical household earns roughly $61,953 per year, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 17%. Across Philadelphia County's 309 public schools (combined enrollment of about 182,005 students), Randolph A. Philip Area Vocational-Technical High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Philadelphia Hebrew Public CS, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Randolph A. Philip Area Vocational-Technical High School at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 21.7%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 9%: 479 students in 2018 compared to 437 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 2% to 11% over that span.

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