Schools · Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA schools
Kids attend Marshall Thurgood or Adaire Alexander Sch or Cayuga School through grade 8, then one of 4 middle schools and Sayre William L MS.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
TownTapestry School GradeNew
C−
Philadelphia’s School Grade: C-
The public schools Philadelphia’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 83% of Pennsylvania’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
CTest scoresD-Graduation
Pennsylvania school districts we grade (683)Better than 17%
Lower resultsHigher results
Pennsylvania towns with similar household incomes (1,776)Better than 2%
High confidence. Built on 16,996 tested students and a graduating class of 10,380; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change the grade.
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Pennsylvania’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of Pennsylvania only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
- Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in Pennsylvania with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
School path
Where Philadelphia kids go to school
Grades PK–8
DMarshall Thurgood or B-Adaire Alexander Sch or DCayuga School
Depends on your address Philadelphia City School DistrictBased on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
Test scores · 2020–21
State test results
Math (grades PK–12, Philadelphia City)22%
State average 37.1%
Graduation · class of 2020
70% graduate on time
Graduation rate
70%
PA: 87.5%
Graduating class
10,380
students
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years. #1028 of 1,035 PA towns →
Districts
The district serving Philadelphia
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Every school
All 424 schools in Philadelphia
Showing 1–30 of 424 schools
Northeast Community Propel AcademyElementary · Grades K–8 · 1,783 students
PublicMayfair SchElementary · Grades K–8 · 1,763 students
DPublicFrank Anne SchElementary · Grades PK–5 · 1,622 students
C+PublicSolis-Cohen Solomon SchElementary · Grades K–5 · 1,350 students
PublicSpruance Gilbert SchElementary · Grades PK–8 · 1,270 students
D-PublicLoesche William H SchElementary · Grades PK–5 · 1,263 students
C+PublicMoore J Hampton SchElementary · Grades K–5 · 1,192 students
DPublicFarrell Louis H SchElementary · Grades K–8 · 1,187 students
C-PublicDecatur Stephen SchElementary · Grades K–8 · 1,028 students
C+PublicSouthwark SchElementary · Grades PK–8 · 976 students
DPublicWissahickon CSElementary · Grades K–8 · 965 students
DCharterFranklin Towne Charter Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades K–8 · 962 students
B-CharterAllen Ethan SchElementary · Grades K–8 · 957 students
C-PublicWest Oak Lane CSElementary · Grades K–8 · 955 students
C-CharterGreenberg Joseph SchElementary · Grades K–8 · 925 students
B+PublicFitzpatrick Aloysius L SchElementary · Grades PK–8 · 906 students
C-PublicJohn Hancock Demonstration SchElementary · Grades K–8 · 895 students
CPublicThe Philadelphia CS for Arts and Sciences at HR EdmundsElementary · Grades K–8 · 885 students
DCharterKIPP Philadelphia CSElementary · Grades K–8 · 861 students
DCharterJuniata Park AcademyElementary · Grades K–8 · 854 students
C-PublicHolme Thomas SchElementary · Grades PK–8 · 850 students
C-PublicKIPP West Philadelphia CSElementary · Grades K–8 · 848 students
DCharterPollock Robert B SchElementary · Grades K–8 · 845 students
C-PublicForrest Edwin SchElementary · Grades PK–5 · 841 students
DPublicChristopher Columbus CSElementary · Grades K–8 · 829 students
D-CharterIndependence CS WestElementary · Grades K–8 · 811 students
DCharterIndependence CSElementary · Grades K–8 · 796 students
C+CharterNorthwood Academy CSElementary · Grades K–8 · 796 students
C-CharterAntonia Pantoja Community CSElementary · Grades K–8 · 752 students
DCharterMastery CS-Smedley CampusElementary · Grades K–6 · 751 students
DCharterSchool data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.