Vaux HS: A Big Picture School

Located at 2300 W Master St, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Vaux HS: A Big Picture School is a tiny 9-12 campus that educates 284 students (grades 9 through 12), overseen by Philadelphia City SD. Enrollment runs roughly 62% below the state mean of about 738.

Vaux HS: A Big Picture School is one of 220 schools operated by Philadelphia City SD, a district that hosts 116,230 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Vaux HS: A Big Picture School records that nearly all students (88%) are Black; the rest looks like 6% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 39%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting Vaux HS: A Big Picture School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Vaux HS: A Big Picture School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 35.2%; this one comes in at 10.7%, -24.5 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Philadelphia County put median household income runs about $61,953, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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), Vaux HS: A Big Picture School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Morris Robert Sch, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Vaux HS: A Big Picture School. On composite proficiency, Vaux HS: A Big Picture School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 16.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

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