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The School District of Philadelphia (SDP) is the school district that includes all school district-operated public schools in Philadelphia. [9] Established in 1818, it is the largest school district in Pennsylvania and the eighth-largest school district in the nation, serving over 197,000 students as of 2022.
As of 2021, there are 151 elementary/K-8 schools, 16 middle schools, and 57 high schools in the School District of Philadelphia, excluding charter schools. [1] The Thomas K. Finletter School serves kindergarten through 8th grade students in the Olney neighborhood of Philadelphia.
Ruth Wright Hayre (October 26, 1910 – January 30, 1998) was an American educator and administrator based chiefly in Philadelphia public schools in Pennsylvania. In 1946 she was the first African American to teach full-time at a high school in the district and, in the late 1950s, the first to be promoted to principal of a high school.
The namesake, Murrell H. Dobbins (1843-1917), was a New Jersey-born man who became a member of the Philadelphia school board. [4] At one point the school had two campuses and was known as the Dobbins/Randolph Area Vocational Technical School. [5] It had absorbed the Randolph Skills Center, [6] named after Asa Philip Randolph. [7]
The school board released a booklet on student rights in 1968. Although the demands were won in 1967, African American History did not become a graduation requirement for high school students in the School District of Philadelphia until 2005; it was the first school district in the United States with that requirement. [1]
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.
The John L. Kinsey School is a former K-8 school that is located in the West Oak Lane neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was a part of the School District of Philadelphia . It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
The school district and the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation listed the Vare building for $2.5 million. Concordia Group, a company headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, acquired the Vare building, along with Germantown High School and three other schools, for $6.8 million. [2] The SRC voted on this sale in September 2014. [8]