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The school board decided to rename an elementary school that had a non-person name. The Philadelphia Inquirer stated that it was likely the first school in the United States to be named after Frank, and the first school in the city with a teenager as its namesake. [2] Gideon, Edward School; Girard, Stephen School; Gompers, Samuel School
The Board of Education Building, also known as the Board of Education Administration Building, is a historic building in the Logan Square neighborhood of Philadelphia. As the long-time headquarters of what is now the School District of Philadelphia, it was a center of the city's educational system. It was completed in 1932.
Greene Street Friends School, a Quaker school grades PK-8, school under the care of Green Street Monthly Meeting; Holmesburg Christian Academy, a non-denominational evangelical Christian school in NE Philadelphia for grades PK-8, was founded in 1975 as a ministry of Holmesburg Baptist Church. [2] Philadelphia Free School, a Sudbury school PK-12
Science Leadership Academy is a magnet public high school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which opened in September 2006. SLA is a partnership between The Franklin Institute and the School District of Philadelphia. SLA is also a 1:1 project-based laptop school where all students and teachers use laptops as their primary learning tool.
Hussian School of Art (closed) Lincoln Technical Institute, Center City and Northeast Philadelphia; Orleans Technical College; Pennsylvania Institute of Technology, Center City and Media; Star Technical Institute; Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia; Thompson Institute (closed) [1]
The School District of Philadelphia operates 151 elementary and K-8 schools, 16 middle schools, and 57 high schools. [14] The remaining 83 public schools are independently operated charter schools. [15] Charter schools are authorized by the School District of Philadelphia, and are accountable to it.
George A. McCall School in Society Hill Folk Arts-Cultural Treasures Charter School. The School District of Philadelphia operates area public schools. Residents of much of the Chinatown area are zoned to General George A. McCall School, [19] [20] a K-8 school located in Society Hill, [21] 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Chinatown. As of 2005 most ...
Leadership within the Archdiocese of Philadelphia envisioned a continued comprehensive education for secondary students. The first free Catholic high school in the United States was the "Roman Catholic High School of Philadelphia", founded for the education of boys in 1890.