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Catholic school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

The Roman Catholic High School of Philadelphia
Roman Catholic High School's logo
Address

301 North Broad Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107 United States
Coordinates	39°57′30″N 75°9′43″W / 39.95833°N 75.16194°W / 39.95833; -75.16194
Information
Type	Catholic school
Motto	Latin: Fides et Scientia (Faith and Knowledge)
Religious affiliation(s)	Catholic Church
Established	1890 (1890)
Founder	Thomas E. Cahill
Oversight	Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia
NCES School ID	01187493
President	John A. Prendergast
Faculty	40.0 (on an FTE basis)
Grades	9–12
Gender	All-male
Enrollment	813 (2019–2020)
Student to teacher ratio	20.3
Color(s)	Purple & Gold
Song	The Purple and Gold
Athletics conference	Philadelphia Catholic League
Nickname	The Cahillites
Accreditation	MSA
Publication	Roamings (literary magazine)
Newspaper	The Roman Empire
Yearbook	Purple and Gold
Tuition	$10,425
Website	www.romancatholichs.com

The Roman Catholic High School of Philadelphia is a Catholic high school for boys in Philadelphia. It was founded by Thomas E. Cahill in 1890 as the first free Catholic high school in the nation. The school is located at the intersection of Broad and Vine streets in Center City Philadelphia, and is managed by the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.

History

Roman Catholic High School was founded with funding provided by the estate of Thomas E. Cahill, a 19th-century Philadelphia merchant. Cahill had envisioned the need to create a school that offered a free Catholic education for boys past their grammar school years. Cahill died before seeing that vision come to life. However, those wishes were followed and guided by a written will and his wife, Sophia Cahill. Roman Catholic opened its doors in 1890 and offered free education to boys. Due to increased staff and facilities costs, free admission to the school ended in the 1960s.

Founder

Thomas E. Cahill, born May 27, 1828, was the son of Thomas Cahill, a native of County Louth in Ireland, colloquially known as 'the Wee County' who came to America in 1817, and of Maria Elliott, daughter of one of the oldest colonial families of Delaware. His father was a railroad contractor who suffered heavy reverses in his business. His mother died at the age of 36. Thomas left school to do his share towards the support of a large family. At 17, he opened a small store in Philadelphia, located between Pine and Spruce Streets on 26th at a wharf on the Schuylkill River.

Successful from the start, he embarked in the wood, coal, and ice business with the proceeds of his first venture. He later organized the Cold Spring Ice and Coal Company. In 1854 he became the first president. In 1869 he effected a consolidation of the large ice firms of the city, incorporated under the name of the famous brand Knickerbocker Ice Company.

19th century

Roman Catholic High School was dedicated on September 6, 1890, in a ceremony conducted by Archbishop Ryan of Philadelphia. His dedication speech compared education in public schools, lacking the Christian recognition of the soul and the importance to teach that subject at this new catholic high school in the education of young men. A class numbering 105 boys were selected for entrance into the new high school. Later only 26 students survived economic hardships and became members of the first graduating class in 1894. Compared to the number who began as first-year students, the percentage of graduates was a little less than 25%. In 1928, one-half of those started received diplomas. During the 95 years of its opening, 16,228 students graduated from Roman Catholic High.

20th century

In 1985, the Archdiocese slated the school for closing due to lowering enrollment. However, the school's alumni association, with the blessing of Philadelphia's John Cardinal Krol, embarked on a campaign to save the school. Roman's Alumni Association, which had existed for over 70 years, came together to raise funds and increase enrollment. The rector of the school even applied to have the building itself kept as a historic landmark, which was accepted. The significance of the historic landmark designation means the building on the corner of Broad and Vine Streets can never legally be torn down. Also, its exterior must always stay the same — though it does not have to remain a school.

Prior to 1986, students who attended Roman were from "feeder parishes"; Roman served as the school for the boys from the Center City, Chinatown, East Falls, Fairmount, Manayunk, North Philadelphia, and Roxborough regions of Philadelphia.

Roman enrolls boys from almost every Philadelphia neighborhood, including The Near and Far Northeast, West Philadelphia, Fishtown, Port Richmond, Mayfair, South Philly, Fox Chase, Roxborough, South Jersey, and outlying suburbs.

Roman Catholic High School was built to hold about 750 to 800 students. Because of high demand, the school is above capacity with approximately 1,100 students. The school holds an entrance test to select its students every October, November, and December. Of the 600 or 700 students that apply, roughly 300 to 350 are accepted. Students who do well on these tests also may receive scholarships ranging from a few hundred dollars to as much as $4000 a year. Usually, about 40 students receive scholarships.

Like other high schools, Roman has a tracking system: that is, the first track (also called the honors track), the second track, and the third track. Roman, however, is unique in that it tracks its honors class into three classes. While students in the honors classes learn the same material at the same pace, it creates a better learning system to have students of the same level together.

21st century

Beginning with the 2012–2013 school year, Roman announced the implementation of a 1:1 iPad initiative, starting with the incoming first-year students. Due to the ever-changing face of education, students require different tools and strategies. The initiative will allow students and teachers to individualize and differentiate instruction in a familiar way to today's students. Students will work on essential 21st-century skill sets needed to meet state and national standards.

Sexual abuse scandal

Further information: Sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic archdiocese of Philadelphia

In July 2011, Philadelphia magazine published an article by Robert Huber regarding the 2011 grand jury report, which documented new charges of child sexual abuse by priests active in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. The article included the story of Joe, a 59-year-old who spoke of his abuse at the hands of Father McGuigan, in 1966, when a ninth grader at Roman Catholic High School.

Historical marker

Dedicated: Tuesday, September 29, 2009. Location: E side of N Broad St., between Vine & Pearl, Philadelphia by the Historical Commission as referenced on the List of Pennsylvania state historical markers. Marker Text: Thomas E. Cahill "Entrepreneur and philanthropist who bequeathed the bulk of his estate to establish Roman Catholic High School for Boys, the first free Catholic high school in the US. Founded here in 1890, the school initiated a diocesan high school system that became a model throughout the nation. Coming from a poor immigrant family, Cahill sought to provide young men from similar backgrounds with the secondary education denied him."

Campus

The campus consists of four structures, Two on Vine Street and two on Wood Street.

Main building (Broad and Vine Streets)

Located on the northeast corner intersection of Broad and Vine Streets.

Dedicated on September 6, 1890, the school's original main building established the main entrance on the frontage of North Broad Street. The building's length was 140 feet and extended eastward on Vine Street for 115 feet, bordered on the north by the very narrow Pearl Street and bounded eastward by a ten-foot wide alley commonly known as Watts Street, rededicated to the school. The land was formerly a Railroad Depot moved just north to Cahowhill Street. The exterior is a three-story building of Victorian Gothic design, faced with "Lee, Massachusetts" marble (the same as selected for Philadelphia City Hall), placed on a granite base (quarried from Conshohocken, Pennsylvania) and sited to impact majestically at the intersection by prominent architect Edwin Forrest Durang. The building has two ornamental stone facades along Vine and Broad Streets joined at a square corner tower and two brick facades at the rear of the building. The building originally had a 150-foot marble tower topped in copper at the corner of Board and Vine, destroyed by fire in 1959 and not replaced.

Initially, there were 20 classrooms, each designed to accommodate between 24 and 42 pupils, the building contained offices, a library suite, mechanical arts workshops, and on the third floor, a hall with a 700-person seating capacity, a gymnasium, and studios with natural lighting for drawing and modeling. External fire towers provided access to lavatory facilities, but no provision was made for a lunchroom. The tower, not entirely ornamental, was fitted with instruments for astronomy classes.

Historically Certified in 1986 by the Historical Commission, it is classified as Gothic Revival architecture and consistent with a number of important Catholic churches and institutions in the City.

East Wing-Main building addition (Vine Street)

In 1953 the original three-story building received an additional two-story wing along the eastside. It connected and integrated the exterior brick façade as part of the interior. The space was utilized for physics and biology labs and the cafeteria. in 1996 the school received permission form the Archdiocese to build a $3.5 million expansion to the school, which was funded by the many alumni, friends, and foundations who recognized the historical importance of sustaining a Catholic high school presence in Center City. This wing, which is dedicated as Renaissance Hall housed an expansion of the cafeteria, a new discipline office, one classroom, and an information center which housed the library, computer lab, and television studio (named after broadcaster and alumnus John Facenda). Also during this project, the labs in the 1954 wing were completely gutted and remodeled with new technology, furniture, and equipment. The Library and Information Center was renovated in the summer of 2013 upgrading computers, copiers, printers and furniture named in honor of John and Mary McShain.

Annex Building (Wood Street)

In 2006, the school opened an additional building acquired from the City which had historical significance related to the City's Medical Examiner. The 13th Street Annex was dedicated to James McSherry, an alumnus and benefactor to the school. This new facility housed a sports training center, creative art studio, a multi-purpose room and the alumni association offices.

Arts Building-Howard Center for the Arts (Wood Street)

As part of "A Vision of Promise” on May 30, 2017, the school held a breaking ground ceremony on an additional new building with anticipated completion sometime in 2018. The initial stage is the construction of a 40,000-square foot building. The arts center is named for Barry and Elayne Howard, longtime supporters and benefactors of Roman Catholic. This new expanded academic facility is located about a block away at 1212 Wood Street, and includes band rooms, instrument storage space, a computer-aided design lab, a digital photography studio, a piano lab, a small theater and an expansion for art programs. More additions to the school in the Vision of Promise are planned.

The School had an unveiling ceremony at the Howard Center on Jan. 26 2023 in the Arts Center’s Black Box Theater and renamed the theater after award winning playwright Charles Fuller Jr. The theater’s new name was suggested by a student and adopted by the Board to be “The Charles H. Fuller Jr., ‘56 Theater. “ Fuller, is an alumni member of the Roman Catholic Class of 1956 and died in October 2022.

Extracurricular activities

Athletics

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Roman Catholic has been prominent in the Philadelphia Catholic League in basketball since the League's inception, winning 30 championship games since 1920. In 2015, 2016, and 2018 Catholic High won the Philadelphia Catholic league Title (PCL), Philadelphia City Title (District XII), and Pennsylvania Boys Class AAAA (Large School) State Championship.

Roman has also succeeded in football. In the 2006 playoffs, Roman finished with a strong 9–3 record while losing to La Salle in the second round of the Catholic League playoffs. In 2007, Roman defeated Northeast Catholic and Father Judge en route to winning the Catholic League Championship, 10–9 over St. Joseph's Prep. This was Roman's best record ever at 12–2. This marks the team's second Red Division championship since the inception of the new Catholic League format, which began in 1999 and ended in 2007.

Roman Catholic H.S. also has a rivalry with the public high school Roxborough High. This rivalry has started an annual Thanksgiving Day football game; a game Roman Catholic has beaten Roxborough at for decades.

Boys Catholic High School is home to one of the most successful crews in North America, practicing for over ten months a year. Roman's crew team sculls (using two oars per man while rowing) rather than sweeps (using one oar a man while rowing). Recently it contributed a Lightweight Four to the Philadelphia Catholic League Rowing championships, finishing second in 2005 to Monsignor Bonner High School by six-tenths of a second. Roman's major sculling rivals are The Haverford School, Conestoga High School, and Malvern Preparatory School. In 2003 and 2005, two Roman students represented the United States at the Junior World Championships in Athens, Greece, & Brandenburg, Germany. In 2006, 2010, 2012, and 2016 the team won the Philadelphia Catholic League Championship.

The school's golf team has enjoyed many years of success as one of the top teams in the league.

The school's ice hockey team started in 1993. Since then, they have won 4 championships; 2000, 2002, 2010, and 2013.

The school's baseball team has won two Catholic League Championships; in 1978 and 1992. The 1992 team had the best record in school history, finishing the season 15-1 (27-1 overall, losing only the final game of the regular season) after beating Bishop Kenrick in the Catholic League Championship game.

Mock Trial - School Competition

Mock Trial is a competitive club activity offered at the High School that is intended to simulate actual courtroom proceedings and allow students to assume the roles of attorneys and witnesses. The team argues a case problem provided by the Pennsylvania Bar Association and competes against teams from across the state. Roman Catholic students have a winning championship record and has won the state's Pennsylvania Mock Trial Competition. The club has expanded to distinguish itself in awards for both National and International competitions.

City Champions: 2010, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024

State Champions: 2023

Notable alumni

Sports

1890–1950

John "Rube" Cashman, head men's basketball coach for Villanova from 1926 to 1929
Frank Schell (1899), Gold Medal American rower who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics
Charles McIlvaine (honorary diploma awarded 2014), member and gold-medallist of the 1928 U.S. Olympic rowing team
Matt Guokas Sr. (1934), played for the Philadelphia Warriors 1947 championship team; father of Matt Guokas Jr.
Tom Conley (1928), football and basketball coach; captain of the 1930 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team; pall-bearer for Knute Rockne
Art McNally (1943), former Director of Officiating for the National Football League (NFL) (1968–90), NFL Hall of Fame

1951–1990

Bob Schafer (1951), Villanova University player, NBA player
Jim Katcavage (1952), 13-year NFL player with the New York Giants and three-time Pro Bowl participant
William "Speedy" Morris (1960), famed Roman Catholic High School and La Salle University basketball coach
Michael Bantom (1969), member of the 1972 Olympic Basketball team, NBA player, and later NBA executive
Dallas Comegys (1983), DePaul University, an NBA basketball player

1991–present

Marvin Harrison (1991), NFL Hall of Fame Wide Receiver
Marc Jackson (1993), Temple University and NBA basketball player
Lari Ketner (1995), University of Massachusetts Amherst and NBA basketball player
Rasual Butler (1998), Selected by the Miami Heat with the 53rd pick of the 2002 NBA draft
Eddie Griffin (2000), NCAA All-American at Seton Hall University, drafted by the Houston Rockets in the first round of the 2001 NBA draft
Scott Paxson (2001) former Penn State all conference defensive tackle
Glenn Ochal (2004), US Olympian; 2012 Bronze medalist (4-man crew); 2016 member (8-man crew)
Brad Wanamaker (2007), NBA and Euroleague player
Maalik Wayns (2009), NBA basketball player
Will Fuller (2013), NFL player
Tony Carr (2016), basketball player in the Israeli Premier Basketball League
Lamar Stevens (2016), NBA basketball player
Seth Lundy, (2019), NBA basketball player
Jalen Duren (2022), NBA basketball player

Government

James P. McGranery (1913), United States Attorney General under U.S. president Harry S. Truman
Daniel J. Terra (1927), United States' first and only Ambassador at Large for Cultural Affairs
Albert F. Sabo (1938), judge who presided over the Mumia Abu-Jamal murder case.
Raymond F. Lederer (1957), Pennsylvania House of Representatives 1974–1977 United States House of Representatives (1977 to 1981)
Charles Hammock, Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Eugene F. McGill, Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1995 to 2006)

Religion

Peter Keenan Guilday (1901), monsignor, Catholic Church historian in U.S.
John J. Bonner (1908), monsignor, Educator, Superintendent of Schools Archdioceses of Philadelphia (1926-1945), Founder of the Philadelphia Catholic League
Joseph A. Pepe (1960), former bishop of the Diocese of Las Vegas
Michael Joseph Bransfield, former bishop of the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston, permanently excluded from engaging in any form of public ministry in the Catholic Church
Daniel E. Thomas (1977), current bishop of the Diocese of Toledo

Entertainment

Joseph I. Breen (1906), public relations agent and film censor
John Facenda (1931), radio and television broadcaster from the 1930s through the early 1980s
Charles Fuller (1955), African American playwright and screenwriter won the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for A Soldier's Play, a story about racism in the military
Larry Neal (1956), scholar of African American theater, professor at Yale University, and playwright who was a leader of the Black Arts Movement

Rectors and presidents

Msgr. Nevin F. Fisher (1890–1902)
Msgr. Hugh T. Henry (1902–1919)
Msgr. William P. McNally (1919–1933)
Rev. Leo D. Burns (1933–1938)
Rev. John A. Cartin (1938–1952)
Msgr. James T. Dolan (1952–1966)
Msgr. Charles V. Gallen (1966–1975)

Rev. Edward Cahill (1975–1981)
Rev. Richard J. McLoughlin (1981–1990)
Msgr. Francis W. Beach `67 (1990–1997)
Rev. Paul C. Brandt (1997–2006)
Rev. Joseph W. Bongard `77 (2006–2010)
Rev. John B. Flanagan (2010–2014)
Rev. Joseph W. Bongard `77 (2014–2023)
Mr. John A. Prendergast `08 (2024-Present)

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Founded 1920
Member Schools	Archbishop John Carroll High School Archbishop Prendergast High School Archbishop Ryan High School Archbishop Wood Catholic High School Bishop McDevitt High School Cardinal O'Hara High School Conwell-Egan Catholic High School Father Judge High School John W. Hallahan High School Lansdale Catholic High School La Salle College High School Little Flower Catholic High School for Girls Monsignor Bonner High School Roman Catholic High School Saint Hubert High School St. Joseph's Preparatory School Saints John Neumann and Maria Goretti Catholic High School West Catholic Preparatory High School

Philadelphia Catholic League

Founded 1920

Member Schools

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia

Ordinaries

Bishops: Michael Francis Egan; Henry Conwell; Francis Kenrick; John Neumann

Archbishops: James Frederick Wood; Patrick John Ryan; Edmond Francis Prendergast; Dennis Joseph Dougherty; John Francis O'Hara; John Krol; Anthony Bevilacqua; Justin Rigali; Charles J. Chaput; Nelson J. Pérez

Auxiliary bishops, current: John J. McIntyre; Keith J. Chylinski; Christopher R. Cooke; Efren V. Esmilla

Auxiliary bishops, former: Cletus Joseph Benjamin; Michael Francis Burbidge; Joseph R. Cistone; Michael Joseph Crane; Edward Peter Cullen; Louis A. DeSimone; Francis James Furey; John Joseph Graham; Edward Hughes; Hugh L. Lamb; Martin Nicholas Lohmuller; Robert P. Maginnis; Joseph Francis Martino; Joseph Carroll McCormick; John Joseph McCort; Gerald Vincent McDevitt; Joseph P. McFadden; Joseph Mark McShea; Gerald O'Hara; Francis B. Schulte; Daniel Edward Thomas; Thomas Jerome Welsh; Edward Michael Deliman; Michael J. Fitzgerald; Timothy C. Senior

Churches

Cathedral: Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul

Parish churches: List of churches in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia; Immaculate Conception; Old St. Joseph; Old St. Mary; St. Adalbert; St. Agatha and St. James; St. Anne; St. Augustine; St. Basil the Great; St. Cyprian; St. Donato; St. Francis de Sales; St. Joachim; St. Michael; St. Nicholas of Tolentine; St. Thomas the Apostle Church; St. William

Chapels and shrines: Church of the Gesú; National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa; National Shrine of St. John Neumann

Former: Holy Trinity

Education

Seminary: St. Charles Borromeo Seminary

Higher education: Chestnut Hill College; Gwynedd Mercy University; Holy Family University; Immaculata University; La Salle University; Neumann University; Rosemont College; Saint Joseph's University; Villanova University

High schools: Acad. of Notre Dame de Namur; Archbishop John Carroll; Archbishop Prendergast; Archbishop Ryan; Archbishop Wood; Bishop McDevitt; Bishop Shanahan; Cardinal O'Hara; Conwell-Egan; Country Day School of the Sacred Heart; Devon Prep; Father Judge; Gwynedd Mercy Academy; Holy Ghost Prep; John W. Hallahan Catholic Girls; La Salle College HS; Lansdale Catholic; Little Flower; Malvern Prep; Mercy Career & Technical; Merion Mercy Acad.; Monsignor Bonner; Mount Saint Joseph Acad.; Nazareth Acad.; Pope John Paul II; Roman Catholic HS for Boys; Saint Basil Academy; Saint Joseph's Prep; Saints John Neumann and Maria Goretti; St. Hubert Catholic High School for Girls; Villa Joseph Marie; Villa Maria Academy

Closed	Cardinal Dougherty High School St. James High School for Boys

Priests

Living: Edward Joseph Adams; Herbert Bevard; Michael J. Bransfield; Joseph L. Coffey; James Green; Joseph A. Pepe; Nelson J. Pérez

Deceased: Joseph Anthony Galante; Francis Brennan; Edwin Byrne; George Aloysius Carrell; Hubert James Cartwright; Joseph M. Corrigan; Joseph Thomas Daley; Edmond John Fitzmaurice; John Edmund Fitzmaurice; John Patrick Foley; Francis Xavier Gartland; Daniel James Gercke; Michael Hurley; Ignatius Frederick Horstmann; John Hughes; Francis Edward Hyland; Francis W. Kelly; Thomas Francis Kennedy; Philip R. McDevitt; Thomas Joseph McDonough; Thomas McGovern; Eugene J. McGuinness; William Matthews; John Joseph O'Connor; William O'Hara; Jeremiah F. Shanahan; John W. Shanahan; David B. Thompson; Francis X. DiLorenzo

Miscellany

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Schools in Philadelphia

School District of Philadelphia
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6-12 schools	Penn Treaty School (neighborhood)
7-12 schools	Carver Engineering and Science
Neighborhood high schools	Bartram Edison/Fareira Samuel S. Fels Frankford Benjamin Franklin Furness George Washington Kensington Martin Luther King Abraham Lincoln Northeast Olney Overbrook Roxborough Sayre South Philadelphia Strawberry Mansion West Philadelphia
Alternative high schools	Bodine for International Affairs The U School (Building 21) Central Constitution Dobbins Vocational Franklin Learning Center High School for the Creative and Performing Arts (CAPA) High School for Girls Lankenau Jules E. Mastbaum Technical Microsoft's School of the Future Motivation Academy at Palumbo Parkway Center City Parkway West (Mayer Sulzberger) Philadelphia Military Academy Robeson for Human Services Arts Academy at Benjamin Rush W.B. Saul (Saul of Agricultural Sciences) Swenson Arts and Technology U School
K-8 schools	Alcorn Ethan Allen Bache-Martin Rudolph Blankenburg F. Amadee Bregy G.W. Childs (Barratt Junior High) Hamilton Disston James Dobson D. Newlin Fell Thomas K. Finletter Academics Plus Edwin Fitler Academics Plus Benjamin Franklin Academics Plus Charles W. Henry Francis Hopkinson Henry H. Houston Andrew Jackson John Story Jenks Eliza Butler Kirkbride Henry C. Lea George A. McCall Delaplaine McDaniel General George G. Meade William M. Meredith Thomas Mifflin S. Weir Mitchell Andrew J. Morrison George W. Nebinger Olney Roosevelt George Sharswood Southwark Spring Garden Edwin M. Stanton Vare-Washington
Middle schools	A.M.Y. at James Martin AMY Northwest Castor Gardens Conwell Middle Magnet Dimner Beeber (Science Leadership Academy at Beeber) Paul Lawrence Dunbar Warren G. Harding M.Y.A. for the Humanities William T. Tilden Gen. Louis Wagner
Elementary schools	Joseph H. Brown Laura H. Carnell Lewis C. Cassidy Academics Plus Joseph W. Catharine Kennedy Crossan Academics Plus Emlen Edwin Forrest Julia Ward Howe Francis Scott Key James Logan James R. Lowell Ludlow John Marshall Alexander K. McClure Overbrook John M. Patterson Joseph Pennell Samuel W. Pennypacker Richmond William Rowen Philip H. Sheridan James J. Sullivan Bayard Taylor Frances E. Willard

Former high schools/
6-12 schools

Former K-8/middle/
elementary schools

Other schools
Roman Catholic Archdiocese	Archbishop Ryan Father Judge J. W. Hallahan Little Flower Mercy Career & Technical Nazareth Academy Roman Catholic St. Hubert St. Joseph's Preparatory St. Malachy Saints John Neumann and Maria Goretti West Catholic
Other private schools	Al-Aqsa Islamic Cedar Grove Christian Friends Select Germantown Friends Girard College Greene Street Friends Overbrook School for the Blind William Penn Pennsylvania School for the Deaf Philadelphia Free School Philadelphia Mennonite Politz Hebrew Springside Chestnut Hill St. Peter's
Former private schools	St. Anthony de Padua Parish
Public charter schools	Arts and Sciences Belmont Boys' Latin Simon Gratz Hope Imhotep Institute MaST Community Mastery Mann Elementary (William B. Mann) Mastery Shoemaker Campus (William Shoemaker) Mastery Thomas Campus (George C. Thomas) Mathematics, Civics and Sciences Memphis Street Smedley Universal Alcorn Universal Audenried Universal Creighton Universal Vare Hardy Williams (Anna Howard Shaw)

Boys' schools in the Philadelphia area

Public boys' schools

Pennsylvania	Boys' Latin of Philadelphia Charter School (Philadelphia)
Closed	The Young Men's Leadership School at Thomas E. FitzSimons High School (Philadelphia)
Became co-ed	Central High School (Philadelphia)

Private boys' schools

Pennsylvania	Devon Preparatory School (Devon) Father Judge High School (Philadelphia) Holy Ghost Preparatory School (Bensalem) La Salle College High School (Wyndmoor) Malvern Preparatory School (Malvern) Roman Catholic High School (Philadelphia) Saint Joseph's Preparatory School (Philadelphia)
New Jersey	St. Augustine Preparatory School (Buena Vista Township)
Delaware	Salesianum School (Wilmington) St. Edmond's Academy (Wilmington)
Closed	Northeast Catholic High School (Philadelphia) St. James High School for Boys (Chester)
Merged	Monsignor Bonner High School (Drexel Hill) Saint John Neumann High School (Philadelphia) West Philadelphia Catholic High School for Boys (Philadelphia)

Boys' schools in Pennsylvania