Board Passes School Facilities Plan
On a 6-3 vote, Philadelphia’s school board passed Superintendent Tony B. Watlington Sr.’s $3 billion facilities plan that would close 17 schools, colocate six, and modernize 169. The closures would take effect no sooner than the 2027-28 school year.
17 schools scheduled for closure
Three schools removed from original closure list
Samuel
Pennypacker
Gen. Louis
Wagner
Lankenau
High
Parkway
Northwest
Warren G.
Harding
Fitler
Academics
Plus
AMY Northwest
Russell H.
Conwell
Rudolph
Blankenburg
John Welsh
John B. Stetson
Overbrook
Elementary
Penn Treaty
James R. Ludlow
MILES
Laura W. Waring
Motivation
High
0
2
Robert Morris
Paul Robeson
Parkway West
William T. Tilden
Source: School District of Philadelphia
John Duchneskie / Staff Artist
Board Passes
School Facilities Plan
On a 6-3 vote, Philadelphia’s school board passed Superintendent Tony B. Watlington Sr.’s $3 billion facilities plan that would close 17 schools, colocate six, and modernize 169. The closures would take effect no sooner than the 2027-28 school year.
17 schools scheduled for closure
Three schools removed from
original closure list
Samuel
Pennypacker
Gen. Louis
Wagner
Lankenau
High
Parkway
Northwest
Fitler
Academics Plus
AMY Northwest
Warren G. Harding
Rudolph
Blankenburg
Russell H. Conwell
John Welsh
John B. Stetson
Overbrook
Elementary
Penn Treaty
James R. Ludlow
Laura W. Waring
Motivation
High
Robert Morris
Paul Robeson
MILES
Parkway West
William T. Tilden
0
2
Source: School District of Philadelphia
John Duchneskie / Staff Artist
