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Germantown High School seen from Germantown Avenue. Germantown High School was a secondary school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Germantown High School graduated its final class on June 19, 2013 and closed its doors that week. [1] GHS, located in Germantown, was a part of the School District of Philadelphia . The school was built in 1914.
May 17, 2024 · Germantown High was the neighborhood’s only public high school and had been a 99-year staple in the community before it was shut down. Read more about what will become of the space that previously housed Germantown High School in WHYY. _____ Editor’s Note: This post first appeared on PHILADELPHIA Today in November 2023.
Nov 17, 2023 · Developers are converting the former Germantown High School into a mixed-use development with approximately 240 apartments. The first 45 units are expected to be completed in the next 6-8 months.
- Aaron Moselle, WHYY
Nov 17, 2023 · Germantown Development, a Philadelphia-based limited liability company, bought the high school from The Concordia Group in 2017, securing the necessary permits about two years later. The company plans to transform the interior of the property over four phases and offer studio, one-bedroom, and two-bedroom apartments.
- Aaron Moselle
PHILADELPHIA.Today. After 10 Years, the Former Germantown High School Will Soon Reopen as a Mixed-Use Development. Story by Jensen Toussaint. • 2mo. Just over a decade ago, Germantown High ...
May 4, 2015 · Germantown High School was just one of many schools that became too great a burden for the school district to bear. In 2013, Philadelphia Public School Notebook reported that GHS was using just 31 percent of its building, with two thirds of the space sitting empty and unutilized.
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May 22, 2014 · Aaron Moselle. May 22, 2014. Listen. For a few minutes on Thursday morning, chatter swirled again outside Germantown High School’s dark-green doors. Nearly a year after budget cuts shuttered the 99-year-old building, residents and developers mingled inside the school’s front courtyard before embarking on a two-hour, open-house tour.
