Samuel S. Fels High School

Public high school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Samuel S. Fels High School
Address

5500 Langdon Street Philadelphia , Pennsylvania 19124 United States
Information
Type	Public high school
School district	The School District of Philadelphia
Principal	Melissa Rasper
Staff	55.83 (FTE)^[1]
Grades	9–12
Enrollment	946 (2018–19)^[1]
Student to teacher ratio	16.94^[1]
Website	Samuel S. Fels High School

The Samuel S. Fels High School (commonly referred to as Fels High School) is a district-run high school in Philadelphia. The school is named after Samuel Simeon Fels. It was founded in 1989 when the Samuel S. Fels Junior High School was restructured to have seventh through tenth grades, with the eleventh and twelfth grades to be added in 1990 and 1991. Melvin K. McMaster was the first principal of the high school.^[2] An $80 million building replaced the old facility in 2009.^[3]

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c "Fels Samuel HS". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved March 3, 2021.
^ Kadaba, Lini S. (September 10, 1989). "Schools spent summer vacation reorganizing". Philadelphia Inquirer. p. 6NE. Retrieved October 25, 2018.
^ Tales, Dafney (September 9, 2009). "All about new beginnings". Philadelphia Daily News. p. 6F. Retrieved October 25, 2018.

External links

Samuel S. Fels High School - school website
Samuel S. Fels High School at the Wayback Machine (archive index)

Schools in Philadelphia

School District of Philadelphia
5-12 schools	Girard Academic Music Program Julia R. Masterman School
6-12 schools	Penn Treaty School (neighborhood)
7-12 schools	Carver Engineering and Science
Neighborhood high schools	Bartram Edison/Fareira Samuel S. Fels Frankford Benjamin Franklin Furness George Washington Kensington Martin Luther King Abraham Lincoln Northeast Olney Overbrook Roxborough Sayre South Philadelphia Strawberry Mansion West Philadelphia
Alternative high schools	Bodine for International Affairs The U School (Building 21) Central Constitution Dobbins Vocational Franklin Learning Center High School for the Creative and Performing Arts (CAPA) High School for Girls Lankenau Jules E. Mastbaum Technical Microsoft's School of the Future Motivation Academy at Palumbo Parkway Center City Parkway West (Mayer Sulzberger) Philadelphia Military Academy Robeson for Human Services Arts Academy at Benjamin Rush W.B. Saul (Saul of Agricultural Sciences) Swenson Arts and Technology U School
K-8 schools	Alcorn Ethan Allen Bache-Martin Rudolph Blankenburg F. Amadee Bregy G.W. Childs (Barratt Junior High) Hamilton Disston James Dobson D. Newlin Fell Thomas K. Finletter Academics Plus Edwin Fitler Academics Plus Benjamin Franklin Academics Plus Charles W. Henry Francis Hopkinson Henry H. Houston Andrew Jackson John Story Jenks Eliza Butler Kirkbride Henry C. Lea George A. McCall Delaplaine McDaniel General George G. Meade William M. Meredith Thomas Mifflin S. Weir Mitchell Andrew J. Morrison George W. Nebinger Olney Roosevelt George Sharswood Southwark Spring Garden Edwin M. Stanton Vare-Washington
Middle schools	A.M.Y. at James Martin AMY Northwest Castor Gardens Conwell Middle Magnet Dimner Beeber (Science Leadership Academy at Beeber) Paul Lawrence Dunbar Warren G. Harding M.Y.A. for the Humanities William T. Tilden Gen. Louis Wagner
Elementary schools	Joseph H. Brown Laura H. Carnell Lewis C. Cassidy Academics Plus Joseph W. Catharine Kennedy Crossan Academics Plus Emlen Edwin Forrest Julia Ward Howe Francis Scott Key James Logan James R. Lowell Ludlow John Marshall Alexander K. McClure Overbrook John M. Patterson Joseph Pennell Samuel W. Pennypacker Richmond William Rowen Philip H. Sheridan James J. Sullivan Bayard Taylor Frances E. Willard

Former high schools/ 6-12 schools	Edward W. Bok Technical Charles Carroll Communications Technology (George Wolf) Stephen A. Douglas Thomas FitzSimons Germantown Robert E. Lamberton William Penn Thaddeus Stevens University City Roberts Vaux Promise Academy Young Women's Leadership School at Rhodes
Former K-8/middle/ elementary schools	Charles Y. Audenried William W. Axe George L. Brooks George W. Childs (former building) Watson Comly Mary Disston Francis M. Drexel Thomas Dunlap Joseph C. Ferguson Robert Fulton Germantown Grammar Elizabeth Duane Gillespie William B. Hanna Nathaniel Hawthorne Holmes George L. Horn (Sheridan West Academy) John L. Kinsey David Landreth Henry Longfellow Mechanicsville Thomas Meehan William S. Peirce Anna B. Pratt Thomas Powers Robert Ralston Samuel J. Randall Thomas Buchanan Read General John F. Reynolds Charles Schaeffer Walter G. Smith Spring Garden School No. 1 M. Hall Stanton Abigail Vare Rudolph Walton George Washington Anthony Wayne John G. Whittier David Wilmot Alexander Wilson Mary Channing Wister Richardson L. Wright

Former high schools/
6-12 schools

Edward W. Bok Technical
Charles Carroll
Communications Technology (George Wolf)
Stephen A. Douglas
Thomas FitzSimons
Germantown
Robert E. Lamberton
William Penn
Thaddeus Stevens
University City
Roberts Vaux Promise Academy
Young Women's Leadership School at Rhodes

Former K-8/middle/
elementary schools

Other schools
Roman Catholic Archdiocese	Archbishop Ryan Father Judge J. W. Hallahan Little Flower Mercy Career & Technical Nazareth Academy Roman Catholic St. Hubert St. Joseph's Preparatory St. Malachy Saints John Neumann and Maria Goretti West Catholic
Other private schools	Al-Aqsa Islamic Cedar Grove Christian Friends Select Germantown Friends Girard College Greene Street Friends Overbrook School for the Blind William Penn Pennsylvania School for the Deaf Philadelphia Free School Philadelphia Mennonite Politz Hebrew Springside Chestnut Hill St. Peter's
Former private schools	St. Anthony de Padua Parish
Public charter schools	Arts and Sciences Belmont Boys' Latin Simon Gratz Hope Imhotep Institute MaST Community Mastery Mann Elementary (William B. Mann) Mastery Shoemaker Campus (William Shoemaker) Mastery Thomas Campus (George C. Thomas) Mathematics, Civics and Sciences Memphis Street Smedley Universal Alcorn Universal Audenried Universal Creighton Universal Vare Hardy Williams (Anna Howard Shaw)