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   What you seeKeystone Algebra I proficiency

   10.8%

   the share of students scoring proficient or advanced on the Keystone Algebra I end-of-course exam. Based on 111 students.

   vs. peers

   23th percentile

   vs. citywide

   57th percentile

   unit

   percent

   direction

   higher is better

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   How it was computedvalue = the state's published percentage for the school × subgroup, as-is

   1. Read the state's wide-format datafile: one row per Pennsylvania school, one column per measure × subgroup (e.g. PercentPersistentAttendance_Black).
   2. Keep Philadelphia rows by mapping the state's AUN + Schl codes to the district's ULCS code through the Master School List.
   3. Unpivot each recognized measure × subgroup column into one served cell; state suppression codes ('IS', '--', '*') are stored as suppressed.

   Citywide percentile, reconstructed right now

   Among 54 default-included schools with a value for this metric, year, and subgroup, this school has a higher value than 30. Midrank rule: (30 + 0/2) / (54 − 1) = 0.566.Stored: 0.566. ✓ matches

   How percentiles are computed · How peer groups are chosen

   Peer percentile, reconstructed right now

   Peer group: up to 40 of the demographically nearest schools among High / selective / district schools; 13 of 13 peers have a value this year. This school is above 3 of them. Midrank: (3 + 0/2) / (14 − 1) = 0.231; stored 0.231. ✓ matches

   The peers and their values (13)

   Peer school	Value
   CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL	89.5%
   SCIENCE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY	81.0%
   ACADEMY AT PALUMBO	76.2%
   WILLIAM W. BODINE HIGH SCHOOL	52.9%
   ARTS ACADEMY AT BENJAMIN RUSH	49.6%
   PARKWAY C.C. MIDDLE COLLEGE	41.8%
   CREATIVE AND PERFORMING ARTS	35.8%
   PHILA HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS	30.3%
   FRANKLIN LEARNING CENTER	25.1%
   LANKENAU HIGH SCHOOL	15.1%
   MOTIVATION HIGH SCHOOL	10.8%
   PARKWAY-NORTHWEST HIGH SCHOOL	8.6%
   PARKWAY WEST HIGH SCHOOL	4.5%

   Note: stored percentiles are computed by a batch script after loads; a difference from the live reconstruction means a newer load changed the comparison set and the batch has not been re-run.

   Evidence: metric tree: Keystone Algebra I proficiency

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   The stored cellThe stored cell

   table

   philly_school_year_metrics

   value

   10.81

   denominator

   111

   suppressed

   false

   citywide_percentile

   0.5660

   comparison_group_percentile

   0.2308

   source_load_id

   96e07ea5-c26b-4f50-acf8-e159bd17d2e0

   Evidence: data model overview

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   The load that wrote itWritten on 2026-06-04 by sdp_pssa_keystone_2023-24.ts

   source id

   sdp_pssa_keystone_2023-24

   file URL

   https://cdn.philasd.org/offices/performance/Open_Data/School_Performance/PSSA_Keystone/2023_2024_PSSA_Keystone_All_Data.zip

   SHA-256 of the file read

   d89570e75caa9d30bd32f41de7a654b1df298e1a27a8bf6538f6dc4a6cfa9261Copy hash

   bytes

   802,929

   year covered

   2023-24

   code commit

   de835926d57d5e04d34ef3f4666df5b66fa57672

   To confirm you have the same file: download it from the URL above, then run shasum -a 256 <downloaded file> Copy command — the output should equal the hash above. If the publisher has since replaced the file, the hashes will differ, which is itself useful to know.

   Evidence: loader script · first-fetch findings for this file · source registry

5. 5
   The publisher's filePSSA & Keystone results, 2023-24

   School District of Philadelphia (Performance Office). Same structure as the 2024-25 file, one year earlier.

   format

   ZIP of CSVs

   join key

   id_eos (= ULCS Code)

   landing page

   https://opendataphilly.org/datasets/sdp-pssa-keystone-performance/

   • Same as the 2024-25 file.
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   How it was checkedChecks: 1 passed, 1 flagged

   • ✓ passedBase case (district file, 2024-25): 54 of 54 unsuppressed cells match
   • ⚠ flaggedCross-publisher sanity check (state vs district)

   Checked at ±1: 0 mismatches, 0 cells served but absent from the file, 0 in the file but not served (ALL, acct, latest year).

   Evidence: Base case (district file, 2024-25) · Cross-publisher sanity check (state vs district)

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   Assumptions & caveatsAssumptions and caveats

   • The state's AUN + Schl → ULCS mapping from the 2024-25 Master School List is correct. State rows for schools not in that directory — district schools that closed before 2024-25 — are not loaded, so every year of state data is a survivor-only panel; cyber charters have their own AUNs and are outside the district's directory.
   • Where two directory schools share a state code (a school and its Continuation Academy), the state's single row belongs to the main school (deterministic rule; the full absenteeism QA lists every shared code).

   • Served from both the district's file (district-run schools) and the state's file (all schools); check the load record on a cell to see which.

   Algorithms involved: Reading the state's wide-format datafile, Citywide and peer-group percentiles, Peer groups: 40 nearest neighbors on demographics