The Philadelphia CS for Arts and Sciences at HR Edmunds

Located at 1197 Haworth Street, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, The Philadelphia CS for Arts and Sciences at HR Edmunds is a substantial primary school that hosts 885 students (grades K through 8), operated by The Philadelphia CS for Arts and Sciences at HR Edmunds. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 100% above typical.

Operationally, The Philadelphia CS for Arts and Sciences at HR Edmunds answers to The Philadelphia CS for Arts and Sciences at HR Edmunds, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

For racial and ethnic makeup, The Philadelphia CS for Arts and Sciences at HR Edmunds logs that 47% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest is composed of 44% Hispanic, 8% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, The Philadelphia CS for Arts and Sciences at HR Edmunds has 71 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 95% of students at The Philadelphia CS for Arts and Sciences at HR Edmunds qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, The Philadelphia CS for Arts and Sciences at HR Edmunds falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 37.0%; this one comes in at 12.8%, -24.1 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, census data for Philadelphia County shows median household earnings sit near $61,953, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 17%. Across Philadelphia County's 309 public schools (combined enrollment of about 182,005 students), The Philadelphia CS for Arts and Sciences at HR Edmunds is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Frankford HS, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around The Philadelphia CS for Arts and Sciences at HR Edmunds. On composite proficiency, The Philadelphia CS for Arts and Sciences at HR Edmunds comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 17.1%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting. The Philadelphia CS for Arts and Sciences at HR Edmunds is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at The Philadelphia CS for Arts and Sciences at HR Edmunds has ticked down 13%, going from 1,012 students in 2018 to 885 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 30% to 44% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 today.

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