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The Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts, commonly known as CAPA, is a magnet school in South Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at the edge of the Christian Street Historic District. [2] It is a part of the School District of Philadelphia. Students major in one of seven areas: creative writing, instrumental music ...
The original West Philadelphia High School (WPHS) building opened in 1912 as Philadelphia's first secondary school west of the Schuylkill, occupying an entire city block bounded by 47th, 48th, Walnut, and Locust Streets. The student population at that time was in excess of 5,500. [3]
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.
Philadelphia High School for the Creative and Performing Arts; Philadelphia Mennonite High School; ... (Philadelphia) West Philadelphia High School;
The King Richard actor — famously "West Philadelphia, born and raised" — visited Overbrook High School in the city and the students went wild in his latest attempt at image rehab.
After being unable to partner with School District officials or charter schools, POP started its first after-school program with 110 students in grades 1–8. Taking place at a Catholic school in West Philadelphia , St. Francis de Sales. , the program began to take off, inducing a lottery for admission.
The Nathaniel Hawthorne elementary school was converted into condominiums in 2011. The High School for the Creative and Performing Arts is also located in Hawthorne, in the former Ridgway Library. The ornate building dates to 1878 and is modeled after the Parthenon, and is the former home of the Library Company of Philadelphia.
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