School District of Philadelphia
The School District of Philadelphia (SDP), in partnership with Open Data Philly, publishes longitudinal data sets spanning various operational school and student performance areas. The public release of this data supports our goals to promote greater transparency and community engagement. Before accessing these data, please review the Terms and Conditions. https://www.philasd.org/performance/wp-content/uploads/sites/85/2017/07/School-District-Data-Sets-Terms-of-Use.pdf
- Employee Information: all active employees, including name, pay rate, title, and location - does not include charter schools
- Teacher Attendance: includes three metrics: Average Daily Attendance (ADA), 90% or more attendance (90%+), and 95% or more attendance (95%+) - does not include charter schools
- Teacher demographics: the number and percentages of teachers in each racial/ethnic and gender category - does not include charter schools
- School Leader Demographics: the number and percentages of principals and assistant principals in each racial/ethnic and gender category - does not include charter schools
- Staff Vacancies: number of FTE staff vacancies across the School District of Philadelphia - does not include charter schools
- Full-Time Employees (FTEs)
School district budget and expenditures. Expenditures includes vendor identifier and name, Activity Name, Amount of Expenditures Spent, etc. The data set covers the Fiscal Year calendar, starting from July 1st and ending on June 30th. New data is posted each January for the previous year.
Contains Student, Parent/Guardian, Teacher, Principal, and Support Staff results and response rates from the Philly School Experience Survey. Note that data for each respondent group or level of aggregation (i.e. school, network, sector) is available only when a minimum response rate threshold is met.
Pre-K Schools in the Philadelphia School System. Includes School Code, School Name, Address, Phone Number, etc. Note: this data does not include Charter Schools.
Performance on the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA) for all district schools by grade. Performance is provided as counts and percentage for Below Basic, Basic Proficient, Advanced, and Proficient/Advanced scores. The following subgroups are also provided: English Language Learner (ELL), Special Education (IEP) status, Gender, Ethnicity, and Economically disadvantaged.
Data is disaggregated by category (e.g., Gender) and group (e.g., Female). Information is suppressed (and a letter s appears) if the number of students in the group (the denominator) is fewer than 20. If only one group within a category has fewer than 20 students, the data for the next-smallest group within the category is also suppressed. Data does not include charter schools.
Shapefiles 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.
Catchment retention data for district, charter, and alternative schools. The Catchment Retention Details report provides enrollment and catchment related details for each school for students enrolled on October 1 of that year. Data reflects students’ last recorded address in the District’s student information system at the time of the enrollment snapshot. Catchment retention counts are grouped by school or by catchment area for students enrolled on October 1 of that year.
School- and District-level enrollment numbers as of Oct 1st. School data is sorted by school and grade. Student subgroups include All Students, Gender, Ethnicity, and EL, IEP, and CEP status. Student Ethnicity breakouts do not include students with unknown ethnicity; student Gender breakouts do not include non-binary students or students with unknown gender information. Note: School years prior to 2019-2020 do not include Charter Schools
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The Master file of all District, Charter, and Alternative Schools in 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 from 2001-2002 to 2016-2017.
School-level information about average yearly rates of student participation in school meals programs, including: school year, ULCS code, site ID, school name, student enrollment, average daily attendance rate, number of reachable students, average number of breakfasts and lunches served per day, and calculated breakfast and lunch participation rates. Food security files contain school-level information about household food security status based on responses about food security that appear on the parent/guardian Philly School Experience Survey (PSES). Schools that met the minimum response rate threshold for the parent/guardian survey are included. The data includes ULCS code, school name, survey response rate, the number of respondents who answered questions about food security, and the number and percentage of respondents who were classified as having very low food security, low food security, and high or marginal food security. Food security classifications were assigned according to procedures published by the USDA.
- Alternative Education Progress Report (AEPR): includes program results from the Alternative Education Progress Report. Example metrics include: Credit Accumulation, Annual Graduation, Attendance
- District Graduates by Act 158 Pathway: Beginning with the graduating class of 2022-2023, students in Pennsylvania are required to demonstrate postsecondary preparedness in order to graduate from high school. Students can graduate via one of five pathways, or by meeting goals and objectives (for special education students only), or through a waiver (in limited circumstances).
- School Graduates by Act 158 Pathway: Reports on Act 158 by school
- District Graduation Rate: information about the graduation rates for the district broken out by: aggregation level (including alternative schools or excluding alternative schools), graduation rate type (four-year, five-year, or six-year), demographic category (EL status, IEP status, Economically Disadvantaged Status, Gender, or Ethnicity), and 9th grade cohort
- School Graduation Rate: information about the graduation rates for schools broken out by: graduation rate type (four-year, five-year, or six-year), demographic category (EL status, IEP status, Economically Disadvantaged Status, Gender, or Ethnicity), and 9th grade cohort. Students are attributed to the last school at which they actively attended in the respective graduation window, which ends on September 30 each year. Students are classified as EL, as having an IEP, and/or economically disadvantaged if they were designated as such at any point during their high school career.
- Aimsweb Star: The files include, at the school level, the distribution of students across performance tiers based on the aimswebPlus and Star assessments, which measure student’s reading and math skills
- Attendance: 90% Attendance, 95% Attendance, and Average Daily Attendance (ADA) by school and district - does not include charter schools
- Out-of-School Suspensions: display the number and percent of enrolled students in each grade that had out-of-school suspensions (OSS)
- Serious Incidents: Incidents reported to the Office of School Safety; the Counts by Incident Type files provide the number of reported incidents at a school, by incident type
- NSC Student Tracker Reports: National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) Student Tracker Reports for individual schools and the District as a whole. These reports contain data on student post-secondary enrollment, persistence, and graduation.
- College Matriculation: Information on the fall matriculation rates for students who graduated during the school year indicated (e.g., 2019-2020 matriculation rates represent enrollment of students who graduated during 2019-2020). Students are considered to have matriculated if they enrolled at a postsecondary institution that reports information to the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC).
School Progress Report on Education and Equity (SPREE). Example metrics include: Student Attendance, Graduation Rates, and PSSA/Keystone results. Use the link in the sidebar to view more information about the SPREE. SPR files (discontinued) structured as one row per school-report from the School Progress Report. Example Metrics include: PSSA Math Prof/Adv, Retention, Out of School Suspension, Graduate, Attendance.
The Application Details files contain, for each sending and receiving school pair, the number of student applications, number of program offers, and number of student acceptances for all criteria-based and citywide admission schools in the School District of Philadelphia. The Applicant Demographics files include district and school level applicant data by applicant demographics.
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 YRBS is based on a CDC and a survey codebook is necessary to interpret the results.
