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Half of Philly schools sit in ESSA support tiers — the federal accountability tail
Thesis
Of the 302 Philadelphia schools in Future Ready PA Index, 120 are at the default ESSA tier (meeting goals), 85 are TSI (targeted support and improvement), 53 are CSI (comprehensive support), 35 are ATSI (additional targeted), and 9 are ACSI (additional comprehensive). Half the Philly universe sits in some federal-support tier vs the city's relatively healthy non-Philly PA average. Map this.
Supporting findings
- DFLT (default — meeting goals): 120 Philly schools.
- TSI (Targeted Support and Improvement): 85.
- CSI (Comprehensive Support and Improvement): 53.
- ATSI (Additional Targeted): 35.
- ACSI (Additional Comprehensive): 9.
- CSI + ACSI together: 62 schools — over 20% of all Philly schools.
- By comparison statewide, only ~5% of schools hit CSI. Philly carries an outsized share of PA's lowest-performing tier.
Reporting directions
- Map the 9 ACSI + 53 CSI schools by Learning Network — geographic concentration?
- Trajectory: how many of these were tier-flagged 3 years ago? Are schools moving out of CSI?
- Compare ESSA tier to SDP's Major Intervention column (Renaissance / Academic Improvement Plan / Acceleration) — federal vs district designations should overlap heavily but won't perfectly.
Methodology & replication recipe — the queries + sources behind the findings above.