The top reported proficiency rate is 75% in Science. The lowest is 54% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Frank Anne Sch
Frank Anne School is a small elementary school in northeast Philadelphia serving kindergarten through fifth grade. The school sits in an area with a solid presence of family housing and walkable neighborhood retail corridors, though not in one of the city's most densely mixed-use or downtown-adjacent neighborhoods. The school itself shows mixed academic results and serves a student body with particular economic and demographic characteristics worth understanding clearly.
Enrollment stands at about fourteen hundred students spread across kindergarten through fifth grade, with no pre-K students. The student body is substantially white and Asian, with meaningful populations of Black and Hispanic students as well. A defining feature is that the school's free-and-reduced-price lunch rate is at or above one hundred percent, meaning virtually all enrolled students come from households below the federal income threshold, which is unusually high for a regular neighborhood public school and signals concentrated economic need. Specific counts for students with disabilities and English learners were not available in the data, so a parent may want to ask the school directly about those populations and what support is in place.
On state testing, the most recent math and reading results show proficiency rates in the range of fifty-four to fifty-eight percent among students in grades three through five. This is below the midline for strong performance and means that roughly half of tested students in these core subjects are meeting state standards. The school's most recent science result, from the prior year, was considerably stronger at over seventy percent, which suggests strengths in that domain. A parent should ask about the trajectory of reading and math scores and what specific instructional changes are underway, especially given that the Philadelphia School District adopted a new science-of-reading ELA curriculum district-wide in 2024-25, so the most recent reading performance reflects early implementation of that change.
Philadelphia as a whole is a walkable, dense urban city with strong neighborhood identity and a major transit system. Housing values in the school's 19115 ZIP code are moderate for a major city and relatively stable, with rents affordable relative to median household income. The city is experiencing uneven growth centered in downtown and University City, while other neighborhoods show more stability. The district has committed significant resources to curriculum standardization and is undertaking a major facilities modernization plan that will close schools, relocate programs, and modernize buildings over the coming decade, so families should stay informed about any catchment or facility changes that might affect Frank Anne specifically.
For families considering this school, the key questions are whether the current reading and math proficiency levels and instructional approach fit their child's needs, what the school's specific action plan is to strengthen those core subjects, and what special-education and English-learner services are available. The high concentration of economic need suggests a school serving a particular community and context; families may want to understand what wraparound supports, after-school programs, and family engagement structures are in place.
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