On Thursday, February 27, the Board will hold an Action Meeting at 4:00 PM. Find materials here.
Announcing the Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Priorities Survey! Learn more and participate HERE
This report uses YRBS data from 2009 through 2019 to show changes in risk behaviors reported by high school students. It provides a general overview of these behaviors, then presents related findings in six sections: mental health, safety and violence, substance use, sexual health, nutrition and physical activity, and physical health. This report also explores how certain students may be more at risk based on their race/ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation.
Results from a new, customized graduate follow-up survey administered to members of the class of 2018.
Findings related to implementation and outcomes of the first year of the second cohort of SDP’s Blended Learning Initiative.
On March 16, 2020, SDP closed schools and offices in response to the global Covid-19 pandemic. Like many other districts, SDP had to quickly pivot from in-person to virtual instruction. This report evaluates the four expected outcomes included in SDP’s “Continuity of Education Plan” for online instruction for the remainder of the 2019-20 school year.
This brief summarizes themes from interviews about best practices conducted with four Reading Specialists in December 2019 and January 2020.
This 11-page brief uses three years of school-level data to explore the relationship between teachers’ perceptions of school climate and teacher retention.
This brief examines the representativeness of the Senior Exit Survey and aims to describe how generalizable responses from 2018-19 are to the entire population of District seniors.
This brief uses District-Wide Survey data to explore the trends in student perceptions of college and career readiness at School District of Philadelphia (SDP) high schools from 2016-17 to 2018-19.
Information about progress related to the Education of Children and Youth Experiencing Homelessness (ECYEH) grant program and the priorities of SDP staff.
In July 2019, we published a brief on “summer” learning loss from 2015-16 to 2018-19. This brief updates and extends those analyses by adding a fourth “summer” of information about K-2 independent reading levels and examining student performance by demographic characteristics, Special Education and English Learner status, and zip code of residence.