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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.
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 Charter School for Arts and Sciences; R. Renaissance Academy Charter School; ... This page was last edited on 11 October 2023, at 11:14 (UTC).
Established in 1966, Archbishop Ryan High School is the largest Catholic secondary school in the city of Philadelphia, with a current enrollment of 848 students as of the 2023–2024 school year. Its students come from over 60 Catholic, public, and charter elementary schools located throughout Philadelphia, Bucks, and Montgomery Counties.
Charter schools are often regarded as an outgrowth of the Powell Manifesto advocating corporate domination of the American democratic process and are considered to represent vested interests' attempts to mold public opinion via public school education and to claim a share of this $500–600 billion-dollar industry. [64] [124] [125] [126] [127]
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.
Boys' Latin of Philadelphia Charter School; C. Career and Academic Development Institute; ... This page was last edited on 7 June 2023, at 21:33 (UTC).
William Penn Charter School (commonly known as Penn Charter or simply PC) is an independent school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.It was founded in 1689 [1] at the urging of William Penn as the "Public Grammar School" and chartered in 1689 to be operated by the "Overseers of the public School, founded by Charter in the town and county of Philadelphia" in Pennsylvania.