1. Public schools system: School District of Philadelphia

2. Parochial schools

3. Private schools
    Friends Schools League  Member schools 

4. Miscellaneous weekend education

5. Higher education

6. References

Education in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania has a rich and storied history. This history began with Benjamin Franklin's founding of the University of Pennsylvania as European styled school and America's first university. Today's Philadelphia region is home to nearly 300,000 college students, numerous private and parochial secondary schools, and the 8th largest school district in the country.

Public schools system: School District of Philadelphia

Philadelphia is served by the School District of Philadelphia, which operates 242 of the city's public schools, including 163 elementary schools, 23 middle schools, and 56 high schools.

The school district is governed by the five-member School Reform Commission. The commission was established in December 2001, when oversight of the district was taken over by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The Governor of Pennsylvania appoints three of the members, and the Mayor of Philadelphia appoints two members of the commission.

There are 84 independently operated charter schools, which make up the remainder of the public schools in Philadelphia. Charter schools are authorized by the School District of Philadelphia, and are accountable to it.

Parochial schools

Philadelphia is home to the most extensive Catholic education system in the United States.{{citation needed|date=May 2012}} Along with hundreds of parish-based elementary schools, there are also twelve Catholic high schools within the city ranging from Archdiocesan high schools to private Catholic high schools. All of the Catholic schools are affiliated with the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia.

Private schools

• Holmesburg Christian Academy, a non-denominational evangelical Christian school in NE Philadelphia for grades PK-8, was founded in 1975 as a ministry of Holmesburg Baptist Church.^[1]
• William Penn Charter School was founded by Penn in 1689, is the oldest Quaker school in the nation, under the care of the Board of Overseers.
• Girard College (a primary and secondary educational institution) was endowed by French-American merchant, mariner and banker, Stephen Girard, opening its doors to disadvantaged youth in 1848.
• Springside Chestnut Hill Academy, (formerly Springside School and Chestnut Hill Academy, respectively) a school grades PK-12 located in the Chestnut Hill section of the city
• Friends Select School, a Quaker school grades PK-12, under the care of Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting and the Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia
• Germantown Friends School, a Quaker school grades PK-12, school under the care of Germantown Monthly Meeting
• Greene Street Friends School, a Quaker school grades PK-8, school under the care of Green Street Monthly Meeting
• Frankford Friends School, a Quaker school grades PK-8, under the care of Frankford Monthly Meeting
• Philadelphia Free School, a Sudbury school PK-12
• Philadelphia Mennonite High School, a Mennonite high school in the Fairmount neighborhood

The French International School of Philadelphia, the French international school serving the Philadelphia area, is in nearby Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania.

Friends Schools League

The Friends' Schools League (FSL) is an athletic league made up of student athletes from several private high schools in the Philadelphia area in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. As the league's name suggests, it consists primarily of Quaker schools, though in recent years several other schools have become part of the league as well.^[2]

Member schools

Member schools include:

• Abington Friends School
• The Academy of the New Church
• Friends Central School
• Friends Select School
• George School
• Germantown Friends School
• Moorestown Friends School
• The Shipley School
• Westtown School

Miscellaneous weekend education

The Japanese Language School of Philadelphia (JLSP, フィラデルフィア日本語補習授業校 Firaderufia Nihongo Hoshū Jugyō Kō), a supplementary Japanese school, holds its classes, intended for Japanese nationals and Japanese Americans, at the Friends Central School (FCS) in nearby Wynnewood.^[3][4]

Higher education

Philadelphia is one of the largest college towns in the U.S., with over 120,000 college and university students enrolled within the city limits and nearly 300,000 in the metropolitan area.

• The Art Institute of Philadelphia
• Chestnut Hill College
• Community College of Philadelphia
• Curtis Institute of Music
• Drexel University
• Holy Family University
• La Salle University
• Moore College of Art and Design
• Peirce College
• Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
• Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
• Philadelphia University
• The Restaurant School
• Saint Joseph's University
• Temple University
• Thomas Jefferson University
• University of the Arts
• University of the Sciences in Philadelphia
• University of Pennsylvania

References

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• Teddy Boy
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• Teddy Boy Blues
• Teddy Bridges
• Teddy Chiu
• Teddy Duchamp
• Teddy Dunn
• Teddy Edwards
• Teddy Forstmann
• Teddy (Full House character)
• Teddy (garment)
• Teddy Goldsmith
• Teddy Hart
• Teddy Jam
• Teddy Johnson
• Teddy Kaczynski
• Teddy Kennedy
• Teddy Kollek
• Teddy Kristiansen
• Teddy Landau
• Teddy Lehman
• Teddy Long
• Teddy Page
• Teddy Pendegrass