Editing Philadelphia (section)

==Education==
{{Main|Education in Philadelphia}}
{{See also|Free Library of Philadelphia}}

===Primary and secondary education===
{{see also|School District of Philadelphia}}
[[File:Penn Charter.jpg|thumb|[[William Penn Charter School]], established in 1689, the nation's oldest [[Quakers|Quaker]] school]]
Education in Philadelphia is provided by many private and public institutions. The [[School District of Philadelphia]] is the local school district, operating [[Public school (government funded)|public schools]], in all of the city.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st42_pa/schooldistrict_maps/c42101_philadelphia/DC20SD_C42101.pdf |title=2020 census - school district reference map: Philadelphia County, PA |publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]] |access-date=July 22, 2022 |archive-date=July 22, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220722220327/https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st42_pa/schooldistrict_maps/c42101_philadelphia/DC20SD_C42101.pdf |url-status=live}} - [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st42_pa/schooldistrict_maps/c42101_philadelphia/DC20SD_C42101_SD2MS.txt Text list] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220722220329/https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st42_pa/schooldistrict_maps/c42101_philadelphia/DC20SD_C42101_SD2MS.txt |date=July 22, 2022 }}</ref> The Philadelphia School District is the eighth-largest [[school district]] in the nation<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.phila.k12.pa.us/about/ |title=About Us – The School District of Philadelphia |publisher=Philadelphia School District |access-date=April 27, 2015 |archive-date=May 8, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150508103158/http://www.phila.k12.pa.us/about/ |url-status=live }}</ref> with 142,266 students in 218 traditional public schools and 86 [[charter schools]] {{As of|2014|lc=y}}.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.phila.k12.pa.us/about/#schools |title=About Us – Schools – The School District of Philadelphia |access-date=April 27, 2015 |archive-date=May 8, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150508103158/http://www.phila.k12.pa.us/about/#schools |url-status=live }}</ref>

The city's K-12 enrollment in district–run schools dropped from 156,211 students in 2010 to 130,104 students in 2015. During the same time period, the enrollment in charter schools increased from 33,995 students in 2010 to 62,358 students in 2015.<ref name="State of the City 2015" /> This consistent drop in enrollment led the city to close 24 of its public schools in 2013.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/08/education/philadelphia-officials-vote-to-close-23-schools.html |title=Philadelphia Officials Vote to Close 23 Schools |website=The New York Times |date=March 7, 2013 |access-date=April 27, 2015 |author=Hurdle, Jon |archive-date=May 6, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150506111743/http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/08/education/philadelphia-officials-vote-to-close-23-schools.html? |url-status=live }}</ref> During the 2014 school year, the city spent an average of $12,570 per pupil, below the average among comparable urban school districts.<ref name="State of the City 2015" />

Graduation rates among district-run schools, meanwhile, steadily increased in the ten years from 2005. In 2005, Philadelphia had a district graduation rate of 52%. This number increased to 65% in 2014, still below the national and state averages. Scores on the state's standardized test, the [[Pennsylvania System of School Assessment]] (PSSA) trended upward from 2005 to 2011 but subsequently decreased. In 2005, the district-run schools scored an average of 37.4% on math and 35.5% on reading. The city's schools reached their peak scores in 2011 with 59.0% on math and 52.3% on reading. In 2014, the scores dropped significantly to 45.2% on math and 42.0% on reading.<ref name="State of the City 2015" />

Of the city's public high schools, including charter schools, only four performed above the national average on the [[SAT]] (1497 out of 2400<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/average-sat-score-2014-2014-10 |title=The Average SAT Score Last Year Was Just Under 1500 |website=Business Insider |date=October 7, 2014 |access-date=April 27, 2015 |author=Jacobs, Peter |archive-date=April 30, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150430060215/http://www.businessinsider.com/average-sat-score-2014-2014-10 |url-status=live }}</ref>) in 2014: [[Julia R. Masterman School|Masterman]], [[Central High School (Philadelphia)|Central]], [[Girard Academic Music Program]], and [[MaST Community Charter School]]. All other district-run schools were below average.<ref name="State of the City 2015" />

===Higher education===
{{See also|List of colleges and universities in Philadelphia}}
[[File:Penn campus 2.jpg|thumb|The [[University of Pennsylvania]], an [[Ivy League]] university in Philadelphia founded in 1749 by [[Benjamin Franklin]] and one of the world's highest-ranked universities]]
[[File:Huntsman Hall at the University of Pennsylvania.jpg|thumb|The [[Wharton School]] at the [[University of Pennsylvania]] in Philadelphia, one of the world's most prestigious business schools]]
Medical and research facilities of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the [[Children's Hospital of Philadelphia]]. Philadelphia has the third-largest student concentration on the [[East Coast of the United States|East Coast]], with more than 120,000 college and university students enrolled within the city and nearly 300,000 in the metropolitan area.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.citylab.com/design/2012/08/americas-leading-college-towns/3054/ |title=America's Leading College Towns |publisher=The Atlantic: City Lab |date=August 27, 2012 |access-date=April 27, 2015 |author=Florida, Richard |newspaper=Bloomberg.com |archive-date=May 12, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150512235409/http://www.citylab.com/design/2012/08/americas-leading-college-towns/3054/ |url-status=live }}</ref> More than 80 colleges, universities, trade, and specialty schools are in the Philadelphia region. One of the founding members of the [[Association of American Universities]] is in the city, the [[University of Pennsylvania]], an [[Ivy League]] institution with claims to be the [[first university in the United States]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Brownlee |first1=David B. |last2=Thomas |first2=George E. |title=Building America's First University: An Historical and Architectural Guide to the University of Pennsylvania |date=2000 |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |location=Philadelphia |isbn=0812235150 }}</ref>

The city's largest university by student enrollment is [[Temple University]], followed by [[Drexel University]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/blog/sharon-oliver/2011/10/the-phila-areas-biggest-colleges.html |title=The Phila. area's biggest colleges |publisher=Philadelphia Business Journal |date=October 21, 2011 |access-date=April 27, 2015 |author=Oliver, Sharon |archive-date=May 30, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150530021503/http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/blog/sharon-oliver/2011/10/the-phila-areas-biggest-colleges.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The city's nationally ranked research universities comprise the University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, Drexel University, and [[Thomas Jefferson University]]. Philadelphia is also home to five schools of medicine: [[Drexel University College of Medicine]], [[Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania]], [[Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine]], [[Temple University School of Medicine]], and Thomas Jefferson University's [[Thomas Jefferson University|Sidney Kimmel Medical College]]. Hospitals, universities, and higher education research institutions in Philadelphia's four congressional districts received more than $252&nbsp;million in [[National Institutes of Health]] grants in 2015.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://report.nih.gov/award/index.cfm?ot=&fy=2015&state=PA&ic=&fm=&orgid=&distr=PA1,PA2,PA8,PA13&rfa=&om=n&pid=&view=statedetail# |title=NIH Awards by Location & Organization |date=April 20, 2015 |access-date=April 27, 2015 |archive-date=June 19, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150619085721/http://report.nih.gov/award/index.cfm?ot=&fy=2015&state=PA&ic=&fm=&orgid=&distr=PA1,PA2,PA8,PA13&rfa=&om=n&pid=&view=statedetail |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Other institutions of higher learning within the city's borders include:
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* [[Chestnut Hill College]]
* [[Community College of Philadelphia]]
* [[Curtis Institute of Music]]
* [[Holy Family University]]
* [[La Salle University]]
* [[Moore College of Art and Design]]
* [[Peirce College]]
* [[Saint Joseph's University]]
* [[The Restaurant School at Walnut Hill College]]
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