The top reported proficiency rate is 89% in Science. The lowest is 69% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Greenberg Joseph Sch
Greenberg Joseph School is a public elementary and middle school serving kindergarten through eighth grade in the Northeast Philadelphia neighborhood of Burholme. The school enrolls roughly eight-hundred-sixty students, with a racial and ethnic makeup that is about equally distributed between Asian, white, Black, and Hispanic students. All students in the school qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, reflecting a population with substantial economic need.
On the most recent state assessments, the school's proficiency rates show a picture of moderate strength in reading and math, with notably high proficiency in science. In English language arts across grades three through eight, roughly three-quarters of students scored at proficient or above. In math across the same grades, about seven in ten students met that threshold. Science proficiency, measured more recently, was substantially higher, with roughly nine in ten students proficient. These results situate the school in the middle range for its grade band and region.
The student body is relatively evenly balanced across grades, with each cohort ranging from about eighty to just over one hundred students, suggesting stable enrollment and no significant grade-level gaps. The school has not reported data on special education or English learner populations, so parents seeking to understand the breadth and depth of support services for those groups would need to inquire directly with the school.
The comparison framework available for this school is limited: because Greenberg Joseph is a single school rather than a district, and because the county's other districts are much larger institutional units, meaningful peer comparisons at the school level do not apply. State assessment results in reading and math represent actual performance at the school and are not ranked against other individual schools.
The school sits in a neighborhood within Philadelphia, a large, densely urban city known for its neighborhood character, strong walkability, and mixed-use residential and commercial streets. The broader Philadelphia context brings substantial access to parks, public libraries, transit, and cultural institutions, along with a diverse economy anchored by healthcare, higher education, and life sciences. The city is undergoing moderate, uneven growth, with most new development concentrated in downtown and Center City areas; other neighborhoods, including Northeast Philadelphia where this school is located, experience slower or more mixed patterns.
At the district level, the Philadelphia School District has recently implemented a standardized math curriculum (Illustrative Mathematics) and a new science-of-reading approach to reading instruction (EL Education for elementary, StudySync for secondary), changes that affect how students are taught every day. The district has also secured increased funding from the city, both through an enhanced share of property tax revenue and through a major facilities modernization plan that will reshape school assignments, close and merge some schools, and modernize buildings over the coming years. These shifts create a period of curriculum transition and potential enrollment or assignment changes that families may want to monitor with their child's school and the district.
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