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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - 1 schools
An equity score of 20/100 ranks Mastery Cs-Francis D. Pastorius Elementary #606 of 648 districts in Pennsylvania (state average 49). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $17,005 per pupil, Mastery Cs-Francis D. Pastorius Elementary ranks #364 of 671 Pennsylvania districts by per-pupil spending (Pennsylvania districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Mastery Cs-Francis D. Pastorius Elementary operates 1 public schools serving 658 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Pennsylvania. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 elementary schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Philadelphia County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $17,005 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 671 Pennsylvania districts by per-pupil spending. See how Pennsylvania compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 77.2% local, 0.3% state, and 22.5% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers. The district's equity score is 20/100, ranked #606 of 648 in Pennsylvania against a state average of 49, notably less even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
a 647:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 33.1% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 87.5% African American, 5.9% Hispanic or Latino, 0.5% White across the district's schools.
Mastery Cs-Francis D. Pastorius Elementa accounts for 98.3% of all Mastery Cs-Francis D. Pastorius Elementary student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Mastery Cs-Francis D. Pastorius Elementary a distant remainder — means Mastery Cs-Francis D. Pastorius Elementary-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: elementary. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Mastery Cs-Francis D. Pastorius Elementary student-counselor ratio is 647:1 — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.
Mastery Cs-Francis D. Pastorius Elementary chronic absenteeism rate is 33.1% — high (typically associated with higher-than-average disruption; recent CRDC data showed elevated rates persisting after pandemic-era schooling changes)
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Comparisons are relative to Mastery Cs-Francis D. Pastorius Elementary's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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How many schools are in Mastery Cs-Francis D. Pastorius Elementary?
Mastery Cs-Francis D. Pastorius Elementary has 1 school, including 1 elementary. Total enrollment is 658 students.
How much does Mastery Cs-Francis D. Pastorius Elementary spend per student?
Mastery Cs-Francis D. Pastorius Elementary spends $17,005 per student. The district has an equity score of 20/100, ranking #606 in Pennsylvania.
What is the demographic composition of Mastery Cs-Francis D. Pastorius Elementary?
Mastery Cs-Francis D. Pastorius Elementary students are 87.5% African American, 5.9% Hispanic or Latino, 0.5% White, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.
What is the equity score for Mastery Cs-Francis D. Pastorius Elementary?
Mastery Cs-Francis D. Pastorius Elementary has an equity score of 20/100, ranking #606 out of 648 districts in Pennsylvania.