Report: Roxborough Avoids School Closures; Lankenau HS to Move
In total, 37 facilities will close citywide; many other changes planned.
A year after an elementary school closed and a middle school moved in, Roxborough was spared any closures by a proposed restructuring plan from the School District of Philadelphia released Thursday. Lankenau High School, a magnet environmental science school house on Spring Lane in Upper Roxborough, will relocate and share space at Roxborough High School in 2013-14, according to the plan. No other schools were impacted. In total, 44 public schools will either close or relocate to new buildings, with 37 facilities closing, if the plan is adopted. Lankenau will continue as a special admissions school, but will lose its own building. Last fall, the district expanded enrollment at Lankenau and Saul High School, also in Roxborough. The move …
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