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 within 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 since 2001-2002. 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: Dec 2020 | Next Update: Nov 2021
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. Note: School years prior to 2019-2020 do not include include Charter Schools.
Last Refreshed: Nov 2020 | Next Update: Nov 2021
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. Note: SY 2019-2020 includes District, Alternative, Charter and Non Public Special Education enrollment numbers. All data prior to SY 2019-2020 only include District schools.
Last Refreshed: Nov 2020 | Next Update: Nov 2021
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: Nov 2019 | Next Update: Oct 2020
Click below for files that include catchment retention details for district, charter, and alternative schools. The files correspond to the “View by Students Enrolled at School” and “View by Students Living in the School” tabs on the Enrollment tab in School Profiles. The Catchment Retention Details report provides enrollment and catchment related details for each school for students enrolled on October 1 of that year.
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 2020 | Next Update: Nov 2021
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 Counts by School report files correspond to the “Top Neighborhoods Students in this School Come From” graph in the Enrollment Detail section on the Enrollment tab in School Profiles. The Counts by School report provides the number of students from each catchment area that are enrolled at a specific school.
The Counts by Catchment report files correspond to the “Top Schools Students in this Neighborhood Attend” graph in the “Where do Students Enroll” section on the Enrollment tab under “View by Students Living in School” in School Profiles. Looking at a specific catchment area, the Counts by Catchment reports provides a list of schools with respective enrollment counts for students living in that neighborhood.
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 2020 | Next Update: Nov 2021
Click below to download a Zip file that contains student, parent/guardian, and teacher response data from the District-wide survey for those schools that met the response rate thresholds in each available school year. The data includes school name, ULCS code, response rate, and percentage of respondents that selected each response to each question at the school level. There is also a Zip file that contains all respondent data for all available years.
Longitudinal:
These files are for those interested in responses at the construct level, looking at responses longitudinally, and/or doing analyses that require that the data be coded numerically.
Cross-Sectional:
These files are for those interested in school-level responses to a particular question or questions in a given year.
Last Update: Oct 2020 | Next Refresh: Oct 2021
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. The survey code book is necessary to interpret the results and is available in Data Information.
Note: Data does not include school identifiers in accordance with CDC requirements. For information about other YRBS administrations across the country, see https://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/data/yrbs/index.htm.
Last Update: 2019 | Next Refresh: 2022
Last modified: March 3, 2021