School Information
Click below to expand the table to view a description of the data and download a data set for a specific school year. You can also download a Zip file that contains all available years for a specific School Information category.
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Click below to view a current Master file of all District, Charter, and Alternative Schools in operation in the School District. Examples of information within the file include: School code, Publication name, School level, Governance, Career and Technical Education (CTE) Status, etc. There is also a Longitudinal file of all District and Charter Schools from 2001-2002 to 2016-2017. Note: Although these school lists are similar, they do not encompass all of the same information. The Longitudinal file is not an appended version of the Master School List.
Last Refreshed: Nov 2024 | Next Update: Oct 2025
Click below for files that provide School-level enrollment numbers as of Oct 1st, sorted by school and grade. Student subgroups include All Students, Gender, Ethnicity, and EL, IEP, and CEP status. Student Ethnicity breakouts do not include students with unknown ethnicity; student Gender breakouts do not include non-binary students or students with unknown gender information. Note: School years prior to 2019-2020 do not include Charter Schools.
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Last Refreshed: Dec 2023 | Next Update: Nov 2024
Click below for files that provide District-wide enrollment numbers as of Oct 1st, sorted by grade. Student subgroups include All Students, Gender, Ethnicity, and ELL, IEP, and CEP status. Student Ethnicity breakouts do not include students with unknown ethnicity; student Gender breakouts do not include non-binary students or students with unknown gender information. Note: files for SY 2019-2020 and onward include District, Alternative, Charter and Non Public Special Education enrollment numbers. All data prior to SY 2019-2020 only include District schools.
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Last Refreshed: Dec 2023 | Next Update: Nov 2024
School District Catchments and Related schools can be found HERE.
The first column of this table provides the name of the elementary school catchment. Reading left to right for schools will provide a visual of lower grade schools feeding into higher grade schools. Students living in the e.g. “Adaire Catchment Area” are feeding into “Penn Treaty HS” for grades 9 through 12.
Click below for files that include the catchment areas for Elementary, Middle, and High Schools. The shapefiles require a Geographic Information System (GIS) software to properly display the school catchment areas.
Notes:
- This data does not include Charter Schools.
- Kensington High School, Kensington CAPA, and Kensington Health Sciences share a catchment area as of 2016-2017, when Kensington HS opened. For this reason, all students living in this area are assigned to the Kensington HS catchment and catchment metrics do not include students attending either CAPA or Health Sciences.
Please note, for the 2013-2014, 2014-2015, and 2015-2016 catchment files on Open Data, Kensington Business (now closed), Kensington Urban (now closed), Kensington CAPA, and Kensington Health shared a catchment area; all students living in the area were assigned to Kensington Business catchment.
Last Refreshed: Apr 2024 | Next Update: Spring 2025
Click below for files that include catchment retention details for district, charter, and alternative schools. The Catchment Retention Details report provides enrollment and catchment related details for each school for students enrolled on October 1 of that year.
The files correspond to the Catchments tab on the interactive Enrollment data website.
Visit our interactive Enrollment data website to further explore our enrollment data, including annual trends, student demographics, catchment details, and maps.
Notes:
- Data reflect students’ last recorded address in the District’s student information system at the time of the enrollment snapshot.
- This data does not include Non Public Special Education schools.
- Kensington High School, Kensington CAPA, and Kensington Health Sciences share a catchment area as of 2016-2017, when Kensington HS opened. For this reason, all students living in this area are assigned to the Kensington HS catchment and catchment metrics do not include students attending either CAPA or Health Sciences.
Last Refreshed: Dec 2023 | Next Update: Dec 2024
Click below for files that include catchment retention counts grouped by school or by catchment area for students enrolled on October 1 of that year. Both report types include district, charter, and alternative schools.
The files correspond to the Catchments tab on the interactive Enrollment data website.
Visit our interactive Enrollment data website to further explore our enrollment data, including annual trends, student demographics, catchment details, and maps.
Notes:
- Data reflect students’ last recorded address in the District’s student information system at the time of the enrollment snapshot.
- This data does not include Non Public Special Education schools.
- Kensington High School, Kensington CAPA, and Kensington Health Sciences share a catchment area as of 2016-2017, when Kensington HS opened. For this reason, all students living in this area are assigned to the Kensington HS catchment and catchment metrics do not include students attending either CAPA or Health Sciences.
Last Refreshed: Dec 2023 | Next Update: Dec 2024
Click below to download a Zip file that contains Student, Parent/Guardian, Teacher, Principal, and Support Staff results and response rates from the Philly School Experience Survey. Note that data for each respondent group or level of aggregation (i.e. school, network, sector) is available only when a minimum response rate threshold is met.
Cross-Sectional data files: These files are for those interested in responses to particular questions in a given year. The files display the number and percentage of respondents selecting each response option for each question. For 2021-2022 and after, the results are aggregated by school, network, sector, and for all respondents. Prior to 2021-2022, the results are aggregated by school only. To download all years, select “All Available Years.”
For longitudinal data, please see our process for submitting a data request.
For more information:
- Visit our interactive Philly School Experience Survey dashboard to further explore survey data, including Board Goals and Guardrails highlights, topic and subtopic details, responses to individual questions, and survey response rates.
- Visit the Philly School Experience Survey home page for technical documentation, research reports, printable school summaries, and more.
Last Update: Nov 2024 | Next Refresh: Sep 2025
This file contains data from the Youth Risk Behavior Study (YRBS) administered in Philadelphia and includes anonymous responses from a random sample of students in grades 9-12.
Notes:
- The survey codebook is necessary to interpret the results and is available in Data Information.
- In accordance with CDC requirements, data does not include school identifiers.
For more information:
- Visit the CDC’s YRBSS website to learn about survey administrations across the country.
- Visit our Youth Risk Behavior Survey home page for research reports, printable posters and brochures, and more.
Last Update: 2022 | Next Refresh: 2024
School Selection – Application Details: The Application Details files contain, for each sending and receiving school pair, the number of student applications, number of program offers, and number of student acceptances for all criteria-based and citywide admission schools in the School District of Philadelphia.
School Selection – Applicant Demographics: The Applicant Demographics files include district and school level applicant data by applicant demographics.
For more information, view our research reports related to school selection.
Last Update: Jan 2024 | Next Update: Dec 2024
Click below for a longitudinal file that contains school-level information about average yearly rates of student participation in school meals programs.
These rates are calculated using publicly available information from the Pennsylvania Department of Education about school meal distributions, as well as District enrollment and attendance data.
School-level data are provided for District schools for school years 2013-14 through 2019-20. Please note that the 2020-21 and 2021-22 school years are unavailable due to COVID-related school closures.
The data includes school year, ULCS code, site ID, school name, student enrollment, average daily attendance rate, number of reachable students, average number of breakfasts and lunches served per day, and calculated breakfast and lunch participation rates. A Notes tab contains further description of the data sources and calculations that are provided in the data file.
For more information, view our research reports related to school breakfast.
Last update: May 2024 | Next update: May 2025
Click below for files that contain school-level information about household food insecurity status. This information is based on responses to questions about food insecurity that appear on the parent/guardian Philly School Experience Survey (PSES). All schools that met the minimum response rate threshold for the parent/guardian survey are included. The data includes ULCS code, school name, survey response rate, the number of respondents who answered questions about food insecurity, and the number and percentage of respondents who were classified as having very low food security, low food security, and high or marginal food security.
Additional tabs contain a description of the methods used to classify household food insecurity as well as information about the specific PSES questions used for this purpose.
Food insecurity classifications were assigned according to procedures published by the USDA. For more information about food insecurity categories, refer to the USDA website here.
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Last Update: Dec 2023 | Next Update: Nov 2024
For questions about these data sets, please contact us at opendata@philasd.org
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Last modified: November 15, 2024