{"id":18730,"date":"2024-04-23T13:52:25","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T17:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/?p=18730"},"modified":"2025-10-01T11:52:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T15:52:33","slug":"philadelphia-public-school-enrollment-2023-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/2024\/04\/23\/philadelphia-public-school-enrollment-2023-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Public School Enrollment, 2023-24"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This brief provides information about enrollment patterns for K-12 students in Philadelphia\u2019s public schools. The analyses focus on enrollment changes with respect to governing sector (District, Philadelphia Charter, Cyber Charter, Alternative, or Other), admission type (Catchment, Citywide, or Criteria-Based), and student demographics.<\/p>\n<p>The brief looks at enrollment trends from 2014-15 through the present school year, with a particular focus on 2022-23 to 2023-24.<\/p>\n<p>Key findings include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As of October 1, 2023, overall enrollment in Philadelphia public schools was 197,115 students.\n<ul>\n<li>112,816 students were enrolled in District schools.<\/li>\n<li>3,299 students were enrolled in Alternative schools.<\/li>\n<li>64,119 students were enrolled in Philadelphia Charter schools.<\/li>\n<li>14,643 students were enrolled in Cyber Charter schools.<\/li>\n<li>2,238 students were enrolled in Other school categories.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>From 2014-15 to 2023-24:\n<ul>\n<li>District school enrollment declined by 13.3% (17,259 fewer students).<\/li>\n<li>Alternative school enrollment declined by 0.8% (25 fewer students).<\/li>\n<li>Philadelphia Charter school enrollment declined by 0.3% (182 fewer students).<\/li>\n<li>Cyber Charter school enrollment increased by over 2500% (14,096 more students).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>As of October 1, 2023, Spanish was the most common non-English home language reported among students in District schools. The number of District students whose families reported that they speak Portuguese at home has grown rapidly since the 2021-22 school year, surpassing the number of Mandarin Chinese speakers as the second most common non-English language spoken at home in 2023-24.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_btn title=&#8221;CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE BRIEF&#8221; style=&#8221;gradient-custom&#8221; gradient_custom_color_1=&#8221;#0b315b&#8221; gradient_custom_color_2=&#8221;#398635&#8243; align=&#8221;center&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221; button_block=&#8221;true&#8221; link=&#8221;url:https%3A%2F%2Fdrive.google.com%2Ffile%2Fd%2F1LUHyTCZFbizpet_iFeP8f3F7VMZoewxE%2Fview%3Fusp%3Dsharing&#8221;][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;16px&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]\n<h6>Correction: The version of this research brief that was posted in April 2024 contained an error in <em>Figure 6: Number of students enrolled in District schools from 2014-15 to 2023-24, by non-English home language (October 1 Enrollment Snapshot)<\/em>. The error caused the home language counts to appear higher than they were. In October 2025, the figure on p. 14 and descriptive text on p. 13 were corrected.<\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This brief provides information about enrollment patterns for K-12 students in Philadelphia\u2019s public schools. The analyses examine enrollment trends with respect to governing sector, admission type, and student demographics from 2014-15 through the present school year, with a particular focus on 2022-23 to 2023-24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103956,"featured_media":18738,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-enrollment","category-system-trends"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/103956"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18730"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25336,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18730\/revisions\/25336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}