To help address the hundreds of empty seats in Philadelphia School District magnets caused by changes to the system’s admissions policy,to 316 eligible incoming ninth graders at 12 underenrolled schools.
Students could also choose from Lankenau, Motivation, Hill-Freedman World Academy, Parkway Northwest, Parkway Center City Middle College, Parkway West, Science Leadership Academy at Beeber, and Philadelphia High School for Girls.applied for admission at any of the 39 special-admissions schools but who did not reapply
Officials did not release the exact numbers of vacancies and applications to each school. The seats were open to current eighth graders who met the qualifications for one or more criteria-based schools they had applied to last fall, but had not accepted any offers.