List of schools of the School District of Philadelphia

As of 2025 ^[update] , there are 218 schools in the School District of Philadelphia, excluding charter schools. Among the schools are 45 elementary, 104 elementary-middle, 2 elementary-middle-high, 14 middle, 6 middle-high, and 47 high schools. ^[1]

The Thomas K. Finletter School serves kindergarten through 8th grade students in the Olney neighborhood of Philadelphia.

Elementary/K-8 schools

* Allen, Dr. Ethel School

• Allen, Ethan School
• Anderson, Add B. School
• Anderson, Marian Neighborhood Academy
• Bache-Martin School
• Barry, John Elementary School
• Bethune, Mary M. School
• Blaine, James G. School
• Blankenburg, Rudolph School
• Bluford, Guion S. Elementary School
• Bregy, F. Amedee School
• Bridesburg School
• Brown, Henry A. School
• Brown, Joseph H. School
• Bryant, William C. School
• Carnell, Laura H. School (K-5)
• Cassidy, Lewis C. Academics Plus School
• Barton, Clara School (K-2)
• Casarez, Gloria Elementary School (K-5)
• Catharine, Joseph W. School (K-5)
• Cayuga School (K-5)
• Childs, George W. School
• Comegys, Benjamin B. School
• Cook-Wissahickon School
• Cooke, Jay School
• Coppin, Fanny Jackson School
• Cramp, William School (K-5)
• Crossan, Kennedy C. School (K-5)
• Day, Anna B. School
• De Burgos, Julia School
• Decatur, Stephen School
• Dick, William School
• Disston, Hamilton School
• Dobson, James School
• Duckrey, Tanner G. School
• Dunbar, Paul L. School
• Edmonds, Franklin S. School
• Elkin, Lewis School (K-4)
• Ellwood School (K-5)
• Emlen, Eleanor C. School (K-5)
• Feltonville Intermediate School (3-5)
• Farrell, Louis H. School
• Fell, D. Newlin School
• Finletter, Thomas K. School
• Forrest, Edwin School (K-5)
• Fox Chase School (K-5)
• Frank, Anne School (K-5)
• Franklin, Benjamin K8 School
• Gideon, Edward School
• Gompers, Samuel School
• Greenberg, Joseph School
• Greenfield, Albert M. School
• Hackett, Horatio B. School (K-5)
• Hamilton, Andrew School
• Harrington, Avery D. School
• Hartranft, John F. School
• Henry, Charles W. School
• Heston, Edward School
• Holme, Thomas School
• Hopkinson, Francis School
• Houston, Henry H. School
• Hunter, William H. School
• Howe, Julia Ward School (K-5)
• Jenks Academy for Arts and Sciences
• Jenks, Abram S. School (K-5)
• John B. Kelly School (K-5)
• Kearny, General Philip School
• Kelley, William D. School
• Kenderton Elementary School
• Kirkbride, Eliza B. School
• Lamberton, Robert E. School
• Lea, Henry C. School
• Lingelbach, Anna L. School
• Locke, Alain School
• Longstreth, William C. School
• Ludlow, James R. School
• Marshall, John School (K-5)
• Marshall, Thurgood School
• Mayfair School
• McCall, General George A. School
• McCloskey, John F. School
• McDaniel, Delaplaine School
• McKinley, William School
• McMichael, Morton School
• Meade, General George G. School
• Meredith, William M. School
• Mifflin, Thomas School
• Mitchell, S. Weir Elementary School
• Moffet, John School
• Moore, J. Hampton School
• Morris, Robert School
• Morrison, Andrew J. School
• Morton, Thomas G. School
• Munoz-Marin, Honorable Luis School
• Nebinger, George W. School
• Northeast Community Propel Academy
• Olney School
• Overbrook Educational Center
• Overbrook Elementary School
• Penn Alexander School
• Pennypacker, Samuel School
• Penrose School
• Pollock, Robert B. School
• Potter-Thomas School
• Patterson, John M. School (K-4)
• Peirce, Thomas M. School (K-5)
• Pennell, Joseph School (K-5)
• Powel, Samuel School (K-4)
• Prince Hall School (K-5)
• Rhawnhurst School (K-5)
• Rhoads, James School
• Richmond School (K-5)
• Rhodes, E. Washington Elementary School
• Roosevelt Elementary School
• Rowen, William School (K-5)
• Sheppard, Isaac A. School (K-4)
• Solis-Cohen, Solomon School (K-5)
• Sullivan, James J. School (K-5)
• Taggart, John H. School
• Taylor, Bayard School (K-5)
• Stearne, Allen M. School
• Stanton, Edwin M. School
• Steel, Edward T. School
• Spring Garden School
• Spruance, Gilbert School
• Southwark School
• Sharswood, George W. School
• Shawmont School
• Vare-Washington School
• Waring, Laura W. School
• Washington, Martha School
• Welsh, John School
• Webster, John H. School
• Willard, Frances E. School (K-4)
• Wright, Richard R. School (K-5)
• Ziegler, William H. School
• Philadelphia Virtual Academy (PVA) (K-12)
• Widener Memorial School (K-12)

Two special admission schools:

• Girard Academic Music Program
• Julia R. Masterman Laboratory and Demonstration School

Middle schools

• AMY at James Martin
• AMY Northwest
• Baldi Middle School
• Castor Gardens Middle School
• Clemente, Roberto Middle School
• Conwell, Russell Magnet Middle School
• Crossroads Accelerated Academy
• Feltonville Arts & Sciences School
• Harding, Warren G. Middle School
• Hill-Freedman World Academy
• Meehan, Austin Middle School
• Middle Years Alt – MYA
• Science Leadership Academy Middle School - SLA-MS
• Tilden, William T. Middle School
• Wagner, Gen. Louis Middle School
• Washington, Grover Jr. Middle School

High schools

Neighborhood

• John Bartram High School
• Thomas A. Edison High School
• Samuel Fels High School
• Frankford High School
• Benjamin Franklin High School
• Horace Furness High School
• Kensington High School
• Martin Luther King High School
• Abraham Lincoln High School
• Northeast High School
• Overbrook High School
• Penn Treaty School (6-12)
• Roxborough High School
• William L. Sayre High School
• South Philadelphia High School
• Strawberry Mansion High School
• George Washington High School
• West Philadelphia High School

Special admission

• Academy at Palumbo
• The Arts Academy at Benjamin Rush
• Bodine International Affairs
• CAPA
• Carver High School for Engineering and Science
• Central High School
• GAMP
• Franklin Learning Center
• Hill-Freedman World Academy High School
• Julia R. Masterman School
• Kensington Creative & Performing Arts High School
• Kensington Health Sciences Academy High School
• Parkway Center City High School
• Parkway Northwest High School
• Parkway West High School
• Philadelphia High School for Girls
• Philadelphia Learning Academy
• Philadelphia Military Academy
• Philadelphia Virtual Academy
• Science Leadership Academy
• Science Leadership Academy at Beeber (6-12)
• The LINC
• Walter Biddle Saul High School for Agricultural Sciences

Citywide admission

• Building 21
• Constitution High School
• Murrell Dobbins Vocational School
• High School of the Future
• Lankenau High School
• Jules E. Mastbaum Technical High School
• Motivation High School
• Paul Robeson High School for Human Services
• Randolph Technical High School
• The U School
• The Workshop School
• Swenson Arts and Technology High School
• Vaux Big Picture High School

Former schools/Historic School Buildings

Elementary Schools

• Adelphi School, closed 1906
• Alexander Wilson School, closed 2013
• Anna B. Pratt Elementary School, closed 2013
• Anthony Wayne School
• Bridesburg School, closed 1894
• Charles R. Drew, closed 2013
• Charles Schaeffer School
• Daniel Boone School (now houses Achieve Academy of Philadelphia)
• David Farragut School
• David Landreth School
• Fairhill Elementary School, closed 2013
• Francis Read School, closed 1980
• Gen. David B. Birney School (currently Lindley Academy Charter School at Birney)
• Gen. John F. Reynolds School, closed 2013
• George L. Brooks School
• George Chandler School
• George L. Horn School
• Washington, George School
• Germantown Grammar School
• Guion S. Bluford School (currently Universal Bluford Charter School)
• Henry Longfellow School
• J. Sylvester Ramsey School
• Joseph C. Ferguson Elementary School, closed 2013
• James Alcorn School (currently Universal Alcorn Charter School)
• Joseph Leidy Elementary School, closed 2013
• John Greenleaf Whittier School (now houses KIPP Philadelphia preparatory academy)
• John L. Kinsey School, closed 2013 (now housing Building 21)
• Laura H. Carnell School
• Leslie P. Hill Elementary School, closed 2013
• Lydia Darrah School
• Mary Channing Wister School
• Mary Disston School
• Mechanicsville School
• M.H. Stanton Elementary School, closed 2013
• Mifflin School
• Muhlenberg School
• Nathaniel Hawthorne School
• Northeast Manual Training School
• Richardson L. Wright School
• Robert Fulton School, closed 2013
• Robert Ralston School
• Rudolph Walton School, closed 2003
• Samuel Daroff School (currently Universal Daroff Charter School)
• Simon Muhr Work Training School
• Spring Garden School No. 1
• Thaddeus Stevens School of Observation
• Thomas Buchanan Read School
• Thomas Creighton School (currently Universal Creighton Charter School)
• Thomas Dunlap School
• Thomas Durham School (now housing Independence Charter School)
• Thomas Meehan School
• Thomas Powers School
• Walter George Smith School, closed 2013
• William B. Hanna School
• William H. Harrison School (now housing St. Malachy School)
• William Levering School (now housing AMY Northwest MS)
• William W. Axe School (now housing Northeast Frankford Boys & Girls Club of Philadelphia)

Middle Schools

• Ada H.H. Lewis Middle School, closed 2008
• Anna H. Shaw Middle School, closed 2013 (currently Hardy Williams Academy)
• Charles Y. Audenried Junior High School (currently Universal Audenried Charter High School)
• Elizabeth Duane Gillespie Junior High School, closed 2011
• George Wharton Pepper Middle School, closed 2013
• Holmes Junior High School
• John P. Turner Middle School
• Mayer Sulzberger Middle School, closed 2010
• Norris S. Barratt Middle School, closed 2012
• Sheridan West Middle School, closed 2013

High schools

• Charles Carroll High School, closed 2013
• Communications Technology High School, closed 2013 (future home of Richard Allen Preparatory charter school)
• Edward W. Bok Technical High School, closed 2013
• Germantown High School, closed 2013
• Robert E. Lamberton High School, closed 2013
• Stephen A. Douglas High School, closed 2013
• Thomas FitzSimons High School, closed 2013
• William Penn High School, closed 2014
• University City High School, closed 2013

See also

• Philadelphia portal
• Pennsylvania portal
• Schools portal

• Francis M. Drexel School, former school
• Edison Schools
• Hope Charter School
• Mathematics, Civics and Sciences Charter School

External links

• The School District of Philadelphia
• Office of Student Enrollment & Placement
• The Office of Secondary Education Planning Guide: A Guide for September 2007 High School Admissions
• "School District of Philadelphia facilities map". Archived from the original on April 19, 2011. Retrieved March 6, 2011.

References

1. "Philadelphia School District Profiles". School District of Philadelphia. Retrieved December 11, 2025.