Parkway Center City Middle College

United States historic place


Helen Fleischer Vocational School
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Helen Fleischer Vocational School, August 2010
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Location	540 North 13th St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	39°57′47″N 75°09′34″W / 39.9630°N 75.1595°W / 39.9630; -75.1595
Area	1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built	1925-1927
Architect	Cassell, John D.
Architectural style	Late Gothic Revival, Academic Gothic
MPS	Philadelphia Public Schools TR
NRHP reference No.	86003282
Added to NRHP	December 4, 1986

The Parkway Center City Middle College is the first ever Middle College in the state of Pennsylvania. It is also an historic, American vocational school that is located in the Poplar neighborhood of Philadelphia. It is part of the School District of Philadelphia.

The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986 as the Helen Fleischer Vocational School.

History and architectural features

This historic structure was built between 1925 and 1927 and is a brick building that was designed in the Academic Gothic style.

Prior to its current status, Parkway Center City Middle College was known as Parkway Center City and was located at 1118 Market Street. The school served as a division of the former Parkway Program, a school without walls program.

Also, this building served as the former Stoddart-Fleischer Junior High School and later Middle School until it closed in June 2003.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986 as the Helen Fleischer Vocational School.

Middle College

In 2017, Parkway Center City Middle College became the first ever Middle College school in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Parkway offers first-generation, college-bound students the opportunity to earn associate degrees from the Community College of Philadelphia while also earning their high school diplomas. Students take classes at the community college while in their ninth and tenth grade years. They take two college classes each school year, while taking high school classes.

In their junior and senior years, students at Parkway take full time college classes and then graduate from college before they graduate from high school. In 2017, incoming ninth graders became the first class of students to be included as part of this program; the remainder of the school functioned as a traditional high school. In 2021, the entire school began operating as a middle college.

References

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
"National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes B. Mintz (July 1986). "Pennsylvania Historic Resource Survey Form: Helen Fleischer Vocational School" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-06-16.
^ "New middle college program gives Philly students a unique chance". 6abc Philadelphia. Retrieved 2023-06-16.
"PCCMC At a Glance – Parkway Center City Middle College". parkwaycc.philasd.org. Retrieved 2023-06-16.

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