South Philadelphia High School

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South Philadelphia High School is a public secondary high school located in the south section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at the intersection of Broad Street and Synder Avenue, just north of the South Philadelphia Sports Complex residential neighborhood, Marocni Plaza, FDR Park, Philadelphia Navy Yard and near the Passyunk Avenue urban corridor of shops and resturants and famous classic Melrose Diner. Acessable by public transprtation of the Broad Street subway, C- Bus, and Synder Avenue trackless trolley.

The school, serving grades 9 through 12, is a part of the School District of Philadelphia.

The school serves South Philadelphia and the Rittenhouse Square section of Center City.[1][2]

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[edit] History

South Philadelphia High School, nick named as Southern, logo Ram. The school was originally built in 1907 with a separation for boys and girls as a 3 year mannual training school. It was demolished and rebuilt in 1956 as a modern styled co-ed high school. Serving students from an immigrant population of a mixed low-middle income neighborhood. The humble economic beginnings of the alumni of the first graduating call in 1911 has blossomed into many world famous people and professionals in all walks of life. The list of hundreds of distinguished alumni reads like a major Ivy League college. There are lawyers, doctors, sport figures, Hollywood entertainers, recording artists, world famous concert musicians, developers and researchers in medicine and equipment for NASA, government officials, foreign diplomats, US ambassadors, cultural leaders, founders and university presidents.

- The Philadelphia School District administrators thought when they opened the Southern Manual Training High School in 1907 and later to become a High School, was merely a three year training facility for immigrant children, mostly of Jewish and Italian decent and was for children who lacked intellectual skills and “could only work with their hands”. But Israel Goldstein, a student, and first scholarship winner in 1912, showed to school administrators that was not true, that there was more promise for academics. He graduated the school at age 14 and graduated the University of Pennslyvania, Penn at the age of 18. Israel Goldstein became a Rabbi, an author, spiritual leader and founder of Brandeis University in Waltham Mass. He became a leader of the Zionist movement in America and founder of the National Conference for Christians and Jews. Due in part to young Israel Goldstein as an example the 3-year training facility became a four-year High School. So whether it is graduates like Goldstein, or musical and entertainment legends the school has seen outstanding individuals grow from the same base with supports from teachers and Alumni.

[edit] Feeder patterns

Feeder K-8 schools include:

  • Thomas Junior High 1929 -2007
  • Albert M. Greenfield School [2]

[edit] School uniforms

South Philadelphia students are required to wear school uniforms [1].

Uniforms consist of white, blue, and tan shirts and navy, khaki, and white bottoms.

[edit] Notable Alumni

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Albert M. Greenfield School." Center City Schools.
  2. ^ a b "Albert M. Greenfield School - Where the Graduates Go." Center City Schools.

[edit] External links

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