In the 1950s, Detroit Public Schools was growing rapidly. Many of the district's schools were old and in need of repair or replacement. In 1959, voters approved a $90-million program that included funds for 21 new elementary schools, five junior high schools, and three new high schools.

The gothic revival giant looms over this North Philadelphia neighborhood with soaring arched windows, towers, and intricate stone carvings. Architect Irwin T. Catharine designed the building in 1926. Catharine was the chief architect of Philadelphia public schools from 1920 until his retirement in 1937. We explored another Catharine school Technology Communications High School or originally opened as George Wolf School. Thomas Fitzsimons Junior High School was added to the national register of historic places in 1988. The school was named after Thomas FitzSimons, who was a signer of the Constitution of the United States.

Trenton was a pioneer in the junior high movement. During World War One, a shift from a school system where elementary school housed students of eight grades and a high school of four grades to a system where elementary school ended in 6th grade, a junior high for grades 7, 8, and 9 grades, finally high school for 10, 11, and 12th grades.

Originally founded as Burlington County College in 1966, the doors first opened to 1,051 students in 1969 at Lenape High School. The original Pemberton campus opened later in 1971 and a year later received accreditation. 

In 1913, the Philadelphia School district acquired two properties for $150,000 for the construction of the school. Plans for a four-story 355,372 square foot building were done by J. Horace Cook. Germantown opened in 1915 at the cost of $784,000 with a total capacity of 2,000 students. A basement gymnasium opened a year later in 1916.

Originally opened in 1927 as the George Wolf School, named for the 19th century Pennsylvania governor. In 1829 George Wolf was elected governor of Pennsylvania and won reelection in 1832. In 1834, the awaited Common School Law established the first statewide system of publicly financed education, a top priority for Governor Wolf. The Common School Act, provided basic education to all children of the state, regardless of wealth or social status. Today many schools within Pennsylvania are named after Governor Wolf, father of the free school system.

Conceived in 1968 as part of a new Eastwick Communication Education Complex, the development was to have housed Eastwich High School, Pepper Middle School along with a new parochial school. The education complex was never completed and in the end only saw the construction of Pepper Middle School, a gargantuan concrete monolithic building of brutalism design.

Originally knows as the ‘White School’ for its resemblance to the White House Mahanoy Township High School was a giant on the hill. In 1938 the school was completely destroyed by fire. Rebuilt in 1940 and in use until 1959.

Conflicting information has the school closing in 1990 or 1991, one account says that the upper floor was closed off several years before the final closing of the school.