Solis-Cohen Solomon Sch

Solis-Cohen Solomon Sch operates as a big elementary campus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, part of Philadelphia City SD. Current enrollment sits at 1,350 students spanning grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 205% bigger than the state mean of about 443.

Philadelphia City SD runs 220 schools in total, collectively educating 116,230 students. Solis-Cohen Solomon Sch is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Solis-Cohen Solomon Sch logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 58% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 15% Asian, 13% White, 12% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 16%.

On the income-and-resources front, Solis-Cohen Solomon Sch records 89 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.1:1. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 95% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Solis-Cohen Solomon Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.0%, the actual is 22.8%, a residual of -14.2 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Philadelphia County indicate the typical household earns roughly $61,953 per year, 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), Solis-Cohen Solomon Sch is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Castor Gardens MS, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Solis-Cohen Solomon Sch ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 30.2%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Solis-Cohen Solomon Sch's enrollment has edged up 15% since 2018, when it stood at 1,174 (now 1,350). Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 32% to 58%. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 in 2025.

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