Overbrook High School (Philadelphia)
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- This article pertains to the Overbrook High School in Philadelphia. For the Southern New Jersey high school, please see Overbrook High School (Pine Hill, New Jersey).
Overbrook High School is a public four year secondary school located in the West Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. An inner city school, it is perhaps most well-known because of its famous alumni (listed below).
Overbrook High School is officially designated by the School District of Philadelphia as Location #402, in the West Region. As of 2005, the school principal of Overbrook is Ethelyn Payne Young.
Although the school's population fluctuates, enrollment for 2004-2005 was 2,075 students (grades 9-12). Although some students are White, Asian, or Latino, 99% of the student population is African American [1].
[edit] School uniforms
Overbrook requires students to wear school uniforms [2].
Shirts may be white or black. Bottoms may be khaki or black.
[edit] Notable alumni
Notable alumni of Overbrook High School include:
- Chaka Fattah, U.S. Congressman (D-PA, 2nd District)
- Malik Rose, basketball player
- Wali Jones, professional basketball player; Miami Heat community affairs liaison
- Walt Hazzard (later Mahdi Abdul-Rahmad), basketball player, later basketball coach for UCLA (1984-88)
- Will Smith, entertainer
- Wilt Chamberlain, basketball player
- Guion S. Bluford, astronaut
- Jamal Gray (The Last Emperor), rapper
- Solomon Burke, soul music legend
- Ira Davis, track & field Olympian
- Frank Piasecki, inventor
- Len Barry, lead singer/songwriter, The Dovells
- Rosetta Hightower, lead singer, The Orlons
- Dee Dee Sharp, singer
- Jerry Blavat, disc jockey
- John Blake, jazz violinist
