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This is probably the most beautiful school building in Philadelphia The walls are marble, the ceilings are high and arched, and there are beautiful statues lining the gorgeous hallways. The students are dazzled by the sheer beauty of their surroundings. The teachers are nice and friendly and they give special attention to students with developmental needs. A lovely school overall

Giddeon building conditions for the opening day of school (August 25, 2025) was horrible!!! The school district, administrators, and maintenance staff should be ashamed that they would allow ANYONE to come in that building and expect learning to go on. Live and dead mice throughout the building, fleas and rodents are visible all throughout the classrooms, hallways, and bathrooms. Several classrooms still had the same “trash” that was left behind in May. Student and staff bathrooms are FILTHY and only toilet rolls are replaced. No cleaning at all and the majority of sinks are stopped up! The first 3 days, several students and staff left early due to sickness related to these horrible conditions. How does the district and administrators expect teaching and learning to go on with these conditions!!! They need to relocate these students and staff until a thorough deep deep cleaning is done by a professional cleaning service. Philadelphia School District and Administrators should be embarrassed and ashamed for these poor students, teachers, and staff!!! Will involve news and media next if issued not resolved immediately!!

This is one of the worst un professional School's I have ever seen. School starts early this year and most parent's weren't even notified some parent's including myself found out by other parent's spreading the rumor in the neighborhood.

This is by far one of the worsts schools in the area of Philadelphia, Children are basically eating cardboard lunches.. Most of the teachers are not qualified to teach. The special needs programs are a joke!. They treat their students horrible. Bullying is very active in the school by students and staff alike. The Autism support class program is garbage... The whole staff has to be fired and replaced!!!

Hi I do not know much about the school I currently live in the neighborhood and because LP Hills closed down another terrible school my children had to attend Blaine but instead I was blessed to be able to enroll them in another school. from what I hear about school it's not good at all but I think it also reflects on community as well.