Fifty-ninth and Lancaster Ave., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. County/parish: Philadelphia.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places December 04, 1986. NRIS 86003313.
Part of Philadelphia Public Schools TR (NRIS 64000730).
1 contributing building.
Overbrook High School is a public, four-year high school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It is designated by the School District of Philadelphia as Location #402, in the West Region.
The building was built in 1926 and designed by Irwin T. Catharine. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
Enrollment for 2020–2021 was 411 students in grades 9 through 12. African Americans make up 94% of the student population. As of 2015, the school principal of Overbrook is Dr. Kahlila Johnson, who graduated from Overbrook in 1989.
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