Vare-Washington El Sch

Vare-Washington El Sch, an intimate elementary school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Philadelphia City SD, serves 375 students, covering grades pre-K through 8.

Philadelphia City SD comprises 220 schools with combined enrollment of 116,230 students; Vare-Washington El Sch is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Vare-Washington El Sch lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 34%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest is composed of 27% White, 20% Black, 10% Asian, 8% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 16% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. About 88% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Vare-Washington El Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 40.0%; this one delivers 40.8%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Philadelphia County shows median household income runs about $61,953, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 17%. Vare-Washington El Sch is one of 309 public schools in Philadelphia County (combined enrollment of about 182,005 students).

Nearest neighbor: Nebinger George W Sch, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Vare-Washington El Sch. On composite proficiency, Vare-Washington El Sch comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 51.9%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Vare-Washington El Sch has ticked down 4%, going from 391 students in 2018 to 375 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share rose from 14% to 27%.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.