Lankenau Environmental Science Magnet High School | |
District: | The School District of Philadelphia |
Type: | Magnet high school |
Grades: | 9–12 |
Address: | 201 Spring Lane |
City: | Philadelphia |
State: | Pennsylvania |
Country: | United States |
Coordinates: | 40.0627°N -75.2528°W |
Zipcode: | 19128 |
Enrollment: | 340[1] |
Ratio: | 16:1 |
Principal: | Jessica Naugle McAtamney |
Sat: | 1185 |
Sat Year: | 2014 |
Act: | 17.0 |
Act Year: | 2014 |
Lankenau Environmental Science Magnet High School (commonly referred as Lankenau High School) is a district-run magnet high school in Upper Roxborough, Northwest Philadelphia.[2] It is a part of the School District of Philadelphia. The school's Advanced Placement participation was 34 percent during the 2014 school year.[3] The school has also received a Bronze recognition by U.S. News & World Report's list of Best U.S. High Schools from 2012 through 2014.
The school is near the border with Montgomery County and occupies a wooded area. It described itself as the "country campus for the college bound".[2]
The school has a garden. In 2016 vandals damaged the garden with a vehicle.[2]
Of the school's 340 students, 99 percent identify as minorities. 94.7 percent identify as Black, 3.6 percent as Hispanic, 1 percent as Other, 0.3 percent as Asian, and 0.3 percent as White.