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“Empowering through Education”

Applications are Open for the Board of Education’s Parent and Community Advisory Council

Please see the announcement below from Board of Education regarding the application process for the Board’s Parent and Community Advisory Council.  Applications are being accepted through October 1, 2024.  To apply, please visit: bit.ly/3X8QMFm.


A Message from the Principal...

A Message from the Principal

Welcome and thank you for visiting Pennypack House School on the World Wide Web!

Our team, which consists of a Principal, an Assistant Principal, a School Climate Manager, an Assistant Program Coordinator, a Student Reentry & Transition Liaison, and various general education teachers, special education teachers, pupil personnel services professionals, and paraeducators, is laser-focused on ensuring that each student served by our school experiences personal success.  Implementation of the School District of Philadelphia’s standards-aligned curricula, complemented by tiered instructional and behavioral interventions and supports allows us to individually and collectively support our students as they cultivate their academic tenacity and social-emotional resiliency while preparing for career or college and community readiness.  We are confident that our efforts, which includes collaboration with students’ families, makes a difference in our students becoming productive workers, responsible family members, and engaged citizens.

As you navigate through our website, you will find general information about our vision, mission, and goals, as well as other important public-facing, school and district level information.  We encourage you to visit our website regularly as school events and other things that may be of interest to you will be shared here.  Our school website is a work in progress and as we strive to keep stakeholders from all of our school’s constituent groups abreast of the happenings and other key aspects of Pennypack House, you can expect to see the site continuously expanding.

Thank you for taking the time to explore Pennypack House School where we are empowering through education!

Yasir Roundtree-Palmer, M.Ed., MSR

Principal, Pennypack House School

yroundtree@philasd.org

Our Purpose

Located in Northeast Philadelphia and situated in the Holmesburg Neighborhood, Pennypack House School provides educational programming inclusive of special education services and English Language Development programming for incarcerated persons (IPs) between the ages of 14 and 22 who are in the care, custody, and control of the Philadelphia Department of Prisons (PDP) and that are detained in one of their five county correctional facilities:

FacilityLocation
Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility (CFCF)7901 State Road | Philadelphia, PA 19136
Riverside Correctional Facility Alternative and Special Detention Modular Unit (RCF ASDMOD3)8101 State Road | Philadelphia, PA 19136
Riverside Correctional Facility (RCF)8151 State Road | Philadelphia, PA 19136
Detention Center (DC)8201 State Road | Philadelphia, PA 19136
Philadelphia Industrial Correctional Center (PICC)8301 State Road | Philadelphia, PA 19136

Our student population is comprised of juvenile and adult IPs who have been charged with an adult criminal offense and are awaiting trial, as well as those who have been convicted of an adult criminal offense.  Managed by the School District of Philadelphia, through our longstanding partnership with PDP, the Pennypack House School team promotes academic, social-emotional, and vocational development within a supportive environment that empowers our students to make progress toward the fulfillment of local graduation requirements and satisfaction of one of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Act 158 graduation pathways, thereby ensuring that they earn their high school diploma.