TECH Freire CS

TECH Freire CS is a tight-knit secondary school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, part of TECH Freire CS. The school caters to 541 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 738 students each, so TECH Freire CS sits 27% leaner than that benchmark.

TECH Freire CS sits inside TECH Freire CS, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

On demographics, TECH Freire CS logs that 92% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 5% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 39% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 91% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, TECH Freire CS sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 38.7%; this one delivers 29.9%.

Across the wider county, Philadelphia County reports that median household earnings sit near $61,953, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 17%. In all, Philadelphia County runs 309 public schools (combined enrollment of about 182,005 students), of which TECH Freire CS is one.

The closest other public school is YouthBuild Phila CS, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, TECH Freire CS comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 24.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area. TECH Freire CS is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. TECH Freire CS's enrollment has expanded 30% since 2018, when it stood at 415 (now 541). Class-load math has fell: from 19.8:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.