# Philadelphia School District Report Cards

> An independent, unofficial transparency tool that gathers public records from Pennsylvania and the School District of Philadelphia into one report-card format for every public, charter, and alternative school in Philadelphia. Built for parents and journalists. Not affiliated with, operated by, or endorsed by the District or the Commonwealth.

Key facts:

- Covers all 328 Philadelphia public, charter, and alternative schools.
- Figures are drawn primarily from the 2024-25 Pennsylvania Future Ready PA Index and PSSA/Keystone results, with enrollment, staffing, and discipline data from School District of Philadelphia open data.
- Core rule: a blank is never counted as a zero. A citywide figure reflects only the schools that report a value and can differ from an official districtwide rate. Always confirm a figure against the official source before publishing.

## Pages

- [Home: find and compare schools](https://psdreportcard.com/): School finder with a map. Search by address to see nearby schools, performance, and the estimated commute, for every public, charter, and alternative school.
- [Data and trends](https://psdreportcard.com/data.html): Fifteen citywide charts on enrollment, spending, staffing, test scores, attendance, discipline, graduation, and college-going.
- [Story ideas for journalists](https://psdreportcard.com/stories.html): 21 data-driven reporting leads plus 16 quick prompts, each pairing a question with the numbers, tables, and charts behind it.
- [About, methodology and sources](https://psdreportcard.com/about.html): How the data is sourced and the rules it follows.

## Markdown for machines

- [Citywide data](https://psdreportcard.com/data.md): The 15 citywide figures as plain tables.
- [Methodology and sources](https://psdreportcard.com/methodology.md): Definitions, sources, and caveats.
- [Story leads](https://psdreportcard.com/stories.md): The reporting questions, grouped by topic.

## Definitions

- Proficient or advanced: the top two of four PSSA/Keystone performance bands.
- PVAAS: the Pennsylvania Value-Added Assessment System, the state's year-to-year academic-growth measure. A score of 70 meets the statewide standard.
- On-track: ninth-graders earning enough credits and attending enough to be on pace to graduate.
- Economically disadvantaged: qualifying for free or reduced-price meals or an equivalent income measure.
- Chronic absence: missing about 10 percent or more of school days, that is, attending fewer than 90 percent of days.