Enrollment
195
High
DISTRICT 689 · STATE 738
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PHILADELPHIA CITY SD·NCES 421899007547
The U School: Innovative Lab
2000 N 7th St, Philadelphia, PA 19122 · (215) 400-7450 · Philadelphia County
GRADES 09–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL195 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 5% of Pennsylvania public high schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Pennsylvania public high schools
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
14 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.7:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
104%
203 students
DISTRICT 99% · STATE 75%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 67 | 34% |
| Grade 10 | 54 | 28% |
| Grade 11 | 26 | 13% |
| Grade 12 | 48 | 25% |
Student demographics
36%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
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PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
10.0%
PA avg 51.1% . -31.2pp since 2023
Math
0.0%
PA avg 43.0% . -1.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 10 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 0 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 31 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 10.0% | 0.0% |
| 2023-24 | 41.2% | 1.9% |
% Proficient or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: PSSA + Keystone. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of PA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
11.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.0%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-21.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 12% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 33% 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.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Where The U School: Innovative Lab ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Philadelphia County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 11.6% | #556 of 576 | #48 of 57 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 0.0% | #623 of 626 ▼ 13 | #66 of 67 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 10.0% | #619 of 626 ▼ 95 | #66 of 67 ▼ 34 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 195 | #607 of 713 | #67 of 70 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 104% | #49 of 619 | #11 of 67 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -30.6% | #17 of 373 | #5 of 35 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
195
-87 (-31%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
was 31.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 195 | 13.6 | 14.4:1 | N/A |
| 2023-24 | 203 | 18.1 | 11.2:1 | 100% (203) |
| 2022-23 | 229 | 20.2 | 11.3:1 | 100% (229) |
| 2020-21 | 282 | 9 | 31.3:1 | 99% (279) |
| 2017-18 | 281 | 12.2 | 23.1:1 | 100% (281) |
| 2015-16 | 164 | 4 | 41.0:1 | 100% (164) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for The U School: Innovative Lab.
Since 2017-18: students down 31% (281 to 195); teachers up 11% (12.2 to 13.6).
About The U School: Innovative Lab
The U School: Innovative Lab is a very small high school with an address in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It reported 195 students in grades 9 through 12 in 2024-25. By comparison, high schools in Pennsylvania enroll about 738 students on average.
The U School: Innovative Lab sits within Philadelphia City SD, which has 220 schools and 116,230 students.
The largest group at The U School: Innovative Lab is Black students, at 78%. Smaller groups are 16% Hispanic and 4% multiracial. County-wide, 39% of Philadelphia County residents are Black. The diversity index for The U School: Innovative Lab is 36%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The school has 13.6 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 14.4 students per teacher. Statewide, high schools in Pennsylvania average 12.8:1.
On the allk12 Grade, The U School: Innovative Lab lands at D, ahead of 5% of Pennsylvania public high schools.
The U School: Innovative Lab trails its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results by 21.4 points (11.6% versus 33.0%), a bottom-10% result in Pennsylvania on BeatsExpectations.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Philadelphia County show that median household income comes to about $61,953, roughly 35% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 17% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Philadelphia County counts 309 public schools with about 182,005 students.
McKinley William School is about 0.3 miles from The U School: Innovative Lab, the shortest distance to any other public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Among the 5 closest schools with test data, this one included, The U School: Innovative Lab ranks 4th on average proficiency.
Locale: City: Large. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, The U School: Innovative Lab had a net loss of 87 students, or 31%. The number of students per teacher dropped from 31.3 to 14.4 over 4 years.
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Philadelphia County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,579,706
Census ACS
Median income
$61,953
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
17%
Below federal line
Schools in county
309
182,005 students
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Frequently asked questions
About The U School: Innovative LabWhat is the total enrollment at The U School: Innovative Lab?
The U School: Innovative Lab enrolls approximately 195 students in grades 09-12.
Is The U School: Innovative Lab an elementary, middle, or high school?
The U School: Innovative Lab is a high school covering grades 09-12.
How many teachers does The U School: Innovative Lab have?
The U School: Innovative Lab employs 14 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.4:1.
What is the student diversity at The U School: Innovative Lab?
Student demographics at The U School: Innovative Lab are roughly 1% White, 16% Hispanic, 78% Black, 1% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is The U School: Innovative Lab public or private?
The U School: Innovative Lab is a public K-12 school, overseen by Philadelphia City SD.
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