Mastery Prep Elementary Charter School

Mastery Prep Elementary Charter School is the sole school in this data set, serving grades K-6 with a total enrollment of 600 students in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The school is part of the Mastery Prep Elementary Charter School District, which is ranked 507 out of 606 districts in the state and has a 1-star rating.

Mastery Prep Elementary Charter School has consistently ranked in the bottom 20% of Pennsylvania elementary schools over the past 3 school years, with rankings between 1205 and 1332 out of around 1500 schools. The school's proficiency rates on the PSSA Math and English Language Arts assessments are significantly below the state averages across all grade levels, with an overall Math proficiency rate of 19.2% compared to the state average of 41.7% in 2024-2025. Additionally, 99.5% of the school's students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, indicating a very high-poverty student population.

Despite spending $17,722 per student, which is higher than the state average, and having a 20:1 student-teacher ratio, Mastery Prep Elementary Charter School is not seeing commensurate academic outcomes. This suggests that simply increasing funding may not be enough to improve performance without addressing other underlying issues. The school's consistent low rankings and poor test scores over multiple years indicate that it has been a long-standing underperformer and has not shown significant improvement over time.