The Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) requires school districts to conduct a follow-up survey with graduates of their Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs. The 2025 graduate follow-up survey asked whether CTE graduates from the class of 2024 had enrolled in college, continued to work or train in their CTE field of study, or pursued other activities.
In this issue brief, we present a short summary of research findings about school grade configurations and their relationship to the academic and socioemotional development of K-12 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.
In the School District of Philadelphia (SDP), the summer melt rate is calculated as the percentage of graduating 12th grade students who intend to go to college but do not matriculate within the first fall after graduation. This brief examines patterns in summer melt rates from 2015-16 to 2023-24 and then looks more closely at characteristics of summer melt for the graduating classes of school years 2021-22, 2022-23, and 2023-24.
The Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) requires school districts to conduct a follow-up survey with graduates of their Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs. The 2024 graduate follow-up survey asked whether CTE graduates from the class of 2023 had enrolled in college, continued to work or train in their CTE field of study, or pursued other activities.
In spring 2025, the School District of Philadelphia (SDP) administered a survey and conducted a series of listening sessions to gather feedback from parents and guardians about their priorities for the Parent and Family University program. This slide deck summarizes results from both the survey and the listening sessions.
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 report summarizes the evaluation of the first year of the School District of Philadelphia’s implementation of the Illustrative Math curriculum, using data from surveys and focus groups to identify facilitators and barriers to implementation within SDP’s context.