Germantown High School (Philadelphia)

Germantown High School seen from Germantown Avenue

Germantown High School was a secondary school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Germantown High School graduated its final class on June 19, 2013 and closed its doors that week.[1]

GHS, located in Germantown, was a part of the School District of Philadelphia. The school was built in 1914. Its students were mostly African-American, despite the previous German population of the region. Students came from the Logan, Germantown, Mt. Airy, Chestnut Hill, and Nicetown-Tioga sections of the city.[2]

The team name was the Bears. In 1993-94 and 1995, the school's boys varsity basketball team was ranked first in Philadelphia.

  1. ^ DeNardo, Mike (2013-06-19). "Germantown High School Graduates Its Final Class Ever". CBS Radio Inc. Retrieved 2013-10-16.
  2. ^ "Germantown High School Geographic Boundaries" (Archive). School District of Philadelphia. Retrieved on November 29, 2015.