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and a Select School for Girls opened in the meeting house on 12th Street at 20 South 12th St.

In 1885, a new school building on 16th Street above Arch Street was nearing completion with a capacity for 60 scholars of each sex in the upper schools, and of 20 in each of the primaries. In 1886, both the boys' and girls' select school relocated to the new building at 16th and Cherry Streets. The location corresponds to the present-day intersection of 17th Street and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.

The school was built land that had

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