Taylor Bayard Sch
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedWhat this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 9 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 13 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 12% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 35% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Taylor Bayard Sch
Taylor Bayard Sch is an elementary campus of moderately sized scale in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, part of Philadelphia City SD, works with 394 students in grades K through 5.
Across the 220 schools in Philadelphia City SD (116,230 students total), Taylor Bayard Sch accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Demographically, Taylor Bayard Sch records that 84% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder is composed of 14% Black. The wider county runs roughly 16% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the resource side, Taylor Bayard Sch logs 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.9:1. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 98% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Taylor Bayard Sch sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 35.5%; actual is 12.0%, a gap of -23.4 points.
In the surrounding community, census data for Philadelphia County shows median household earnings sit near $61,953, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 17% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Philadelphia County's 309 public schools (combined enrollment of about 182,005 students), Taylor Bayard Sch is one campus in the mix.
Munoz-Marin Luis is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Taylor Bayard Sch at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 12.8%.
Taylor Bayard Sch operates from a downtown location.
Looking at the recent track record. Taylor Bayard Sch's enrollment has contracted 26% since 2018, when it stood at 533 (now 394). Hispanic enrollment moved from 70% to 84% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 9.9:1 in 2025.
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