Shawmont Sch

Shawmont Sch is one of the medium-sized elementary-level communitys in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, part of Philadelphia City SD, with 471 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8.

Shawmont Sch is one of 220 schools operated by Philadelphia City SD, a district that hosts 116,230 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Shawmont Sch logs that the largest single group is Black at 50%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 26% White, 11% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, Philadelphia County as a whole is about 39% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. About 89% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Shawmont Sch tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 39.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 43.8%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Philadelphia County indicate median household income runs about $61,953, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 17%. Across Philadelphia County's 309 public schools (combined enrollment of about 182,005 students), Shawmont Sch is one campus in the mix.

Green Woods CS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Shawmont Sch. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Shawmont Sch at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 53.7%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Shawmont Sch's enrollment has contracted 7% since 2018, when it stood at 507 (now 471). White enrollment moved from 44% to 26% across the same window.

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