About
Where are ICS graduates accepted?
Here’s a partial list of high schools that have accepted ICS graduates:
- Academy at Palumbo
- Arts Academy at Benjamin Rush
- Bodine High School
- Boys Latin Charter School
- Central High School
- Charter High School for Architecture and Design
- Constitution High School
- Creative and Performing Arts High School (CAPA)
- Delaware Valley Charter
- Episcopal Academy
- Freire Charter School
- Friends Central
- George Washington Carver High School of Engineering and Science
- Germantown Academy
- Haverford School
- Mastery Charter Schools
- Northeast High School
- Nueva Esperanza
- Parkway High School - Center City
- Penn Charter
- Philadelphia High School for Girls
- Philadelphia Military Academy at Elverson
- Prep Charter High School
- Roman Catholic High School
- Saul High School of Agricultural Sciences
- Science Leadership Academy
- St. Joseph’s Preparatory
At a Glance
Basics
Founded: 2001
Grades: K-8
Average class size: 23
Number of students: 788
First graduating class: 2007
Ethnicity
African-American: 51.6%
Asian: 4.7%
Caucasian: 23.7%
Latino/Hispanic: 13.7%
Other: 6.3%
Homeroom Teacher-to-Student Ratio
1 teacher for every 23 students
Grades K-5 have an assistant for 10-20 hours/week
Specialist Staff
Art: 1
Music & Drumming: 2
Science: 4
Fitness, Dance & Movement: 2
Special Education: 5
Counselors: 2
Deans: 2
Nurse: 1
ESL (English as a Second Language): 2
Performance
Adequate yearly progress: Keystone School; achieved five years in a row
Attendance: 95%-97% daily average
Gifted program: approximately 20% of student body
Special Education program: 13% of student body
Other Achievements
Recipient of National Charter School of the Year (2007, Center for Education Reform)
Fulbright partner school
Winner of the Goldman Sachs Foundation Prize for Excellence in International Education
Member of Schools That Can
Philadelphia Magazine “Great Philadelphia School”
Student Information
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