List of schools of the School District of Philadelphia

As of 2021 ^[update] , 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.

Elementary/K-8 schools

• Alexander Adaire School
• Allen, Dr. Ethel School
• Ethan Allen School
• Anderson, Add B. School
• Bache-Martin Elementary School
• Clara Barton School
• John Barry School
• Benjamin Franklin Academics Plus School
• Bethune, Mary Mcleod School
• Blaine, James G. School
• Rudolph Blankenburg School
• Guion S. Bluford Elementary School
• F. Amadee Bregy School
• Bridesburg School
• Brown, Henry A. School
• Joseph H. Brown Elementary School
• Bryant, William C. School
• Carnell, Laura H. School
• Catharine, Joseph W. School
• Cayuga School
• Fox Chase School
• G.W. Childs Elementary School
• Comegys, Benjamin B.
• Watson Comly School
• Cooke, Jay School
• Cook-Wissahickon School
• Fanny Jackson Coppin School
• Cramp, William School
• Crossroads Academy @ Hunting Park
• Day, Anna B. School
• DeBurgos, J. School
• Decatur, Stephen School
• Dick, William School
• Hamilton Disston School
• James Dobson Elementary School
• Duckrey, Tanner School
• Paul Laurence Dunbar School
• Edmonds, Franklin S. School
• Edwin Fitler Academics Plus School
• Elkin, Lewis School
• Ellwood School
• Emlen Elementary School
• Farrell, Louis H. School
• D. Newlin Fell School
• Feltonville Intermediate School
• Fitzpatrick, A. L. School
• Edwin Forrest School
• Anne Frank School - Originally Bustleton Elementary, renamed in 1987 at the suggestion of the Anne Frank Institute. 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
• Greenberg, Joseph School
• Greenfield, Albert M. School
• Hackett, Horatio B. School
• Hall, Prince School
• 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
• Howe, Julia Ward School
• Hunter, William H. School
• Jenks Academy for the Arts & Sciences
• Jenks, Abram School
• John Hancock Demonstration School
• Juniata Park Academy
• Kearny, Gen. Philip School
• Kelley, William D. School
• Kelly, John B. School
• Kenderton School
• Kennedy Crossan Academics Plus School
• Key, Francis S. School
• Kirkbride, Eliza B.
• Lamberton, Robert E. School
• Lawton, Henry W. School
• Lea, Henry C. School
• Lewis C. Cassidy Academics Plus School
• Lingelbach, Anna L. School
• Locke, Alain School
• Loesche, William H. School
• Logan, James School
• Longstreth, William C. School
• Lowell, James R. School
• Ludlow, James R. School
• Marshall, John School
• Marian Anderson Neighborhood School- formerly Chester A. Arthur School.
• Marshall, Thurgood School
• Mayfair School
• McCall, Gen. George A. School
• McCloskey, John F. School
• McClure, Alexander K. School
• McDaniel, Delaplaine School
• McKinley, William School
• McMichael, Morton School
• Meade, Gen. George G. School
• Meredith, William M. School
• Mifflin, Thomas School
• Mitchell, S. Weir School
• Moffet, John School
• Moore, J. Hampton School
• Morris, Robert School
• Morrison, Andrew J. School
• Morton, Thomas G. School
• Munoz-Marin, Hon. Luis School
• Nebinger, George W. School
• Northeast Community Propel Academy
• Olney Elementary School
• Overbrook Elementary School
• Overbrook Educational School
• Patterson, John M. School
• Peirce, Thomas M. School
  • The current building opened in January 2023. ^[3]
• Penn Alexander School
• Pennell, Joseph School
• Pennypacker, Samuel School
• Penrose School
• Pollock, Robert B. School
• Potter-Thomas School
• Powel, Samuel School
• Rhawnhurst School
• Rhoads, James School
• Rhodes, E. Washington School
• Richmond Elementary School
• Roosevelt Elementary School
• Rowen, William School
• Sharswood, George W. School
• Shawmont School
• Sheppard, Isaac A. School
• Sheridan, Philip H. School
• Solis-Cohen, Solomon School
• Southwark School
• Spring Garden School
• Spruance, Gilbert School
• Stanton, Edwin M. School
• Stearne, Allen M. School
• Steel, Edward School
• Sullivan, James J. School
• Taggart, John H. School
• Taylor, Bayard School
• Thomas K. Finletter Academics Plus School
• Vare-Washington School
• Waring, Laura W. School
• Washington, Martha School
• Webster, John H. School
• Welsh, John School
• Widener Memorial School
• Willard, Frances E. School
• Wright, Richard R. School
• Ziegler, William H. School

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

Anna Blakiston Day High

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 — About Us". Philadelphia School District. Retrieved October 28, 2021.
2. Kadaba, Lini S. (March 26, 1987). "Elementary school renamed for Anne Frank". Philadelphia Inquirer . Philadelphia. p. 5-NE. - Clipping at Newspapers.com.
3. Payoute, Jasmine (January 3, 2024). "T. M. Peirce students return from winter break to new school building in North Philadelphia". CBS News . Retrieved January 4, 2023.