Philadelphia, PA
Kids in Philadelphia
Public-school enrollment and staffing from NCES, plus bedrooms, childcare and how educated the adults already here are. This is not a GreatSchools ranking.
- Public-school students
- 850,543
- NCES CCD 2024-2025, regular and charter districts in this metro.
- Pupil–teacher ratio
- 13
- 65,548 teachers across 306 districts and 1334 schools.
- Districts / schools
- 306 / 1334
- Open regular, component and charter LEAs geocoded to this CBSA.
- Bedrooms you set
- 1
- A household this size usually wants a studio.
- Childcare in this setup
- $0
- No kids under 5 in the current household, so this is $0.
- Leftover with current kids
- $2,426
- After tax, rent and everything else.
- Adults 25+ with a bachelor's or higher
- 41.5%
- ACS 2023 5-year. This is the education of adults already living here, not a school rating.
If this were a family of four
Two adults, two kids, one under five, three bedrooms: leftover in Philadelphia would be -$239 a month, with $1,173 going to childcare. Run that household on the paycheck page →
Enrollment and staffing: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-2025, joined to metros with NCES EDGE LEA geocodes. Childcare is a national baseline scaled by this metro's cost index — not a daycare quote. No test-score rankings.