Richmond Sch

Located at 2944 Belgrade St, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Richmond Sch is a compact elementary school that educates 351 students (grades K through 5), overseen by Philadelphia City SD. Enrollment runs roughly 21% smaller than the state mean of about 443.

Philadelphia City SD comprises 220 schools with combined enrollment of 116,230 students; Richmond Sch is among them.

Demographically, Richmond Sch lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (40%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 32% White, 17% Black, 9% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 16%.

On the resource side, The school lists 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 96% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Richmond Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 36.3%; this one delivers 33.6%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Philadelphia County put the typical household earns roughly $61,953 per year, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 17% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Philadelphia County runs 309 public schools (combined enrollment of about 182,005 students), of which Richmond Sch is one.

Memphis Street Academy CS @ JP Jones is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Richmond Sch. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Richmond Sch at 1st of 4; the average score across the group is 19.5%.

Richmond Sch operates from a metropolitan location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 42%: 606 students in 2018 compared to 351 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 26% to 40% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 in 2025.

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