Samuel Pennypacker Sch

As a close-knit primary school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Samuel Pennypacker Sch hosts 328 students from grades pre-K through 8, one of the schools within Philadelphia City SD. Enrollment runs roughly 26% below the state mean of about 443.

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

On demographics, Samuel Pennypacker Sch records that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (91%); the rest looks like 7% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 39%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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), Samuel Pennypacker Sch is in the bottom 10% of Pennsylvania public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 35.1%; Samuel Pennypacker Sch posts 14.4%, -20.7 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Philadelphia County) reports that median household income runs about $61,953, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 17%. Across Philadelphia County's 309 public schools (combined enrollment of about 182,005 students), Samuel Pennypacker Sch is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is West Oak Lane CS, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Samuel Pennypacker Sch comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 22.3%.

Samuel Pennypacker Sch operates from a downtown location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Samuel Pennypacker Sch has decreased 18%, going from 400 students in 2018 to 328 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 2% to 7%. Class-load math has fell: from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 in 2025.

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