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High · Regular · Grades 5 to 12

Freire CS, Philadelphia, PA

Charter schoolFreire CS is a public high school in Philadelphia, part of Freire CS. It enrolled 1,024 students in 2024-25, with 13.8 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
1,024
Teachers (FTE)
74.0
Students per teacher
13.8
Grades
5 to 12

This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 13.8. The Pennsylvania average across schools is 13.5. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school13.8
District13.8
Pennsylvania13.5
United States15.3

School details

Address
2027 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103
Phone
(215)557-8555
District
Freire CS
County
Philadelphia County
Level
High
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
Yes
Locale
City: Large
NCES school ID
420006000502
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
953
Reduced-price lunch
0
Free or reduced-price lunch
95393.1% of enrollment.
Community Eligibility Provision
No

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

Related schools

High schools elsewhere in Philadelphia

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.