In this brief we present Philadelphia public high school graduation rates from 2014-15 to 2024-25 and examine the trends in this metric by sector, high school admission type, CTE programming, and student demographic groups.
This brief provides information about enrollment patterns for K-12 students in Philadelphia’s public school (District, Charter, Alternative, and Other), looking at enrollment trends from 2015-16 through 2025-26, with a particular focus on year-over-year changes from 2024-25 to 2025-26.
The Senior Exit Survey is administered annually each spring by the Office of Research and Evaluation (ORE). In 2024-25, ORE received responses from 7,369 seniors at 79 District high schools, representing 73.9% of enrolled 12th grade students.
In this brief we present Philadelphia public high school graduation rates from 2013-14 to 2023-24 and examine the trends in this metric by different student groupings.
Priority Area 5 of the School District of Philadelphia’s strategic plan, Accelerate Philly, is to “deliver efficient, high-quality, cost-effective operations.” To this end, Strategic Action 5.12 requires that we “benchmark District performance against other large urban districts.” We selected 18 academic and operational KPIs to benchmark SDP against other large urban districts. This slide deck includes available data for each KPI from 2017-18 through 2022-23.
Each year, the School District of Philadelphia (SDP) administers a budget priorities survey to gather stakeholder feedback that will inform the next year’s budget. A total of 5,508 stakeholders representing 254 District schools/programs responded to the survey.
This brief provides information about enrollment patterns for K-12 students in Philadelphia’s public schools based on data from the October 1 Enrollment Snapshot. The brief looks at enrollment trends from 2014-15 through the present school year, with a particular focus on 2023-24 to 2024-25.
The Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) provides grant funding to eight regions in Pennsylvania to serve students experiencing homelessness through the Education for Children and Youth Experiencing Homelessness (ECYEH) program. This brief provides information about progress toward the goals of the ECYEH grant program and priorities of SDP staff.
This Philadelphia Education Research Consortium (PERC) study focuses on recent patterns of high-school student mobility within SDP and seeks to deepen our understanding of how ELs experience mobility.
The Senior Exit Survey is administered annually each spring by the Office of Research and Evaluation (ORE). In 2023-24, ORE received responses from 6,718 seniors at 78 District high schools, representing 73.4% of enrolled 12th grade students. This slide deck presents a summary of survey results.