Wagner Gen Louis MS

Wagner Gen Louis MS is a middle-grades school of small scale in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, part of Philadelphia City SD, works with 296 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 50% leaner than the state mean of about 594.

Across the 220 schools in Philadelphia City SD (116,230 students total), Wagner Gen Louis MS accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Wagner Gen Louis MS shows that nearly all students (89%) are Black. The remainder comes out to 6% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 39% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Wagner Gen Louis MS has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.2:1, putting Wagner Gen Louis MS higher than the state norm the norm. About 102% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Wagner Gen Louis MS falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 33.9%; this one comes in at 7.2%, -26.7 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Philadelphia County indicate median household income runs about $61,953, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 17%. Wagner Gen Louis MS is one of 309 public schools in Philadelphia County (combined enrollment of about 182,005 students).

The closest other public school is Building 21, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Wagner Gen Louis MS comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 18.5%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 41%: 502 students in 2018 compared to 296 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment contracted from 93% to 89% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 in 2025.

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