Parents sharing the process of searching for a school in Greater Philadelphia. What kind of school are you looking for? Charter, public, private, city, suburban?
Frankford Friends is to our family the perfect school. 
On her blog Raising Philadelphia, Inquirer reporter Miriam Hill wrote quite an amusing piece on her struggle in deciding between public and private. 
Henry is a local school (although not our catchment school) with a good reputation and a strong network of families and alumni. 
Save yourself from the thoughts of uprooting your family and moving to the suburbs, putting yourself on tons of charter school wait lists, and filling out the financial aid forms every year. Check out your public school! 
This was such a long and drawn out process. We loved many of the schools we visited and applied to. 
Taxes are crazy high but at least the school quality reflects that. 
I named this blog "Search" instead of "Choice" for a reason. To many, probably most Philadelphia families out there, school choice is an illusion. 
The tuition is much more reasonable than many of the independent schools (and doesn't start climbing steeply after kindergarten), and it still had all the things we were looking for. 
Len Lipkin
PSS Community