Lankenau High School – threatened with closure

JJ

January 27, 2026 at 10:53 am #74843

So it turns out that the only high school in the city to have both massive access to nature on the city’s edge, AND the only GIS mapping program for high school students in the city is threatened with closure:

https://www.inquirer.com/education/lankenau-high-school-closing-list-philadelphia-20260127.html

There’s a very real possibility that this school might be shut down and land sold off to developers – which the school’s community is (understandably) opposing:

https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/29d905b6364c41ea9a77809c08438711

Here’s a petition via one of the school’s educators:

https://www.change.org/p/keep-open-the-lankenau-high-school-land-lab-campus

 

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