Lead Safe Certification Program
Overview: Lead Safe Certification
The goal of the Lead Safe Certification Program is to reduce lead-based paint hazards in every school building and ensure that classrooms and other areas are free of paint chips, and lead-containing dust and debris on a daily basis and after every facilities, maintenance or capital project.
What you should know about the District’s Lead Safe Certification Program:
- Student safety is out first priority!
- Lead Safe Certification Assessments will be begin in all schools constructed prior to 1978, and other buildings deemed likely to contain lead-based paint.
- Before a Lead Safe project begins in a school, Certified Lead Inspectors will assess the building to identify conditions of loose, peeling, flaking and crumbling paint and plaster.
- Families and school communities will be notified at least 10 days prior to an assessment. Assessment results will be posted on this page (below) within 10 days of receipt.
- The damage found as a result of the assessments will be managed and controlled by the school’s facilities staff until a Lead Safe repairs can be completed.
- Lead Safe projects are completed and/or supervised by individuals who are trained and certified in United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) lead-based paint renovation, repair and painting (RRP) work practices.
- Facilities cleaning staff are trained in the District’s lead safe cleaning standards. Routine cleaning will take place in every school to ensure that schools are safe for students on a daily basis.
For more information about lead, please contact the Lead Prevention Unit of the Philadelphia Department of Health at (215) 685-2788 or visit phila.gov/health/childhoodlead.
Test Results: Please search for the most recent assessment results. Check back for letters as the results are continually being updated.
How to read the results:
- Click on a link below
- Use the definitions to the right to interpret the information
- *Note: Only schools that have been evaluated for a lead safe project have a link. If there is no link, that school has not been evaluated yet. Please check back often for updates.
Definitions
- Element = Some campuses have multiple buildings (main building, annex, little school house, etc.). Element denotes the structure that the information is referring to. The main building is typically denoted as “1”.
- On-Site Room Name = The present day room label/number/assignment as observed the day of the evaluation.
- Primary Component = The surface being described: W1, W2, W3, W4, Ceiling or Floor. W1, W2, W3, W4 refer to the door wall, left wall, front wall, and right wall respectively upon entering the room.
- Substrate Material = The type of material underneath the painted surface.
- Primary Component Damage Quantity (sf) = Total area, in square feet, of damaged paint on any assessed surface.
- XRF Reading = Our consultants use X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) to test surfaces for lead presence. This column shows the results of the XRF tests. The tests produce milligrams per square centimeter measurements. In Philadelphia, the threshold for whether or not a surface is considered to contain lead presence is 0.7 mg/cm2. Any reading above that threshold indicates lead presence and anything below indicates no lead presence.
- Additional Component = Every painted surface in a space beyond the walls, including: doors, frames, rails, radiators, baseboards, window sills, etc.
Alexander Adaire | Dr. Ethel Allen | Ethan Allen | Add B. Anderson | Chester A. Arthur
Arthur Annex |
Bache-Martin | John Barry | Barton | Mary McLeod Bethune | James G. Blaine |
Rudolph Blankenburg | Amedee F. Bregy | Bridesburg | Henry A. Brown | Joseph H. Brown |
William C. Bryant | Laura H. Carnell | Lewis C. Cassidy | Joseph Catharine
Catharine Annex | Cayuga |
George W. Childs | Benjamin B. Comegys | Watson Comly | Cook-Wissahickon | Jay Cooke |
William Cramp | Kennedy C. Crossan | Anna B. Day | J. DeBurgos | Stephen Decatur |
William Dick | Hamilton Disston | James Dobson | Tanner Duckrey | Paul L. Dunbar |
Franklin S. Edmonds | Lewis Elkin | Elwood | Eleanor C. Emlen | Louis H. Farrell |
D. Newlin Fell | Feltonville Intermediate | Thomas K. Finletter | Fitler Academics Plus | A. L. Fitzpatrick |
Edwin Forrest | Fox Chase | Anne Frank | Benjamin Franklin | Edward Gideon |
Stephen Girard | Samuel Gompers | Joseph Greenberg | Albert M. Greenfield | Horatio B. Hackett |
Andrew Hamilton | Hancock Demonstration | Avery D. Harrington | John F. Hartranft | Charles W. Henry |
Edward Heston | Thomas Holme | Francis Hopkinson | Henry H. Houston | Julia Ward Howe |
William H. Hunter | Andrew Jackson | Jenks Academy Arts & Sciences | Abram Jenks | Juniata Park Academy |
Gen. Philip Kearny | William D. Kelley | John B. Kelly | Kenderton | Francis Scott Key |
Eliza B. Kirkbride | Robert E. Lamberton | Henry W. Lawton | Henry C. Lea | Anna L. Lingelbach |
Alain Locke | William H. Loesche | James Logan | William C. Longstreth | James R. Lowell |
James R. Ludlow
Ludlow Community Center | John Marshall | Thurgood Marshall | Mayfair | Gen. George A. McCall |
Alexander K. McClure | Morton McMichael | John F. McCloskey | Delaplaine McDaniel | William McKinley |
Gen, George G. Meade | William M. Meredith | Thomas Mifflin | Mitchell | John Moffet |
J. Hampton Moore | Robert Morris | Andrew J. Morrison | Thomas G. Morton | Hon. Luis Munoz-Marin |
George W. Nebinger | Olney
Olney Annex | Overbrook Educational Center | Overbrook | John M. Patterson |
Thomas M. Peirce | Follow-Up Sampling | Jospeh Pennell | Samuel Pennypacker | Penrose |
Robert B. Pollock | Potter-Thomas | Samuel Powel | Prince Hall | Rhawnhurst |
James Rhoads | Rhodes | Richmond | Roosevelt | William Rowen |
George Sharswood | Shawmont | Isaac A. Sheppard | Philip H. Sheridan | Solomon Solis-Cohen |
Southwark | Spring Garden | Gilbert Spruance | Edwin M. Stanton | Allen M. Stearne |
Edward Steel | James J. Sullivan | John H. Taggart | Bayard Taylor | Vare-Washington |
Laura W. Waring | Martha Washington | John H. Webster | John Welsh | Widener Memorial |
Frances E. Willard | Richard R. Wright | William H. Ziegler | | |
AMY 5 @ James Martin | AMY Northwest | Baldi | Dimner Beeber | Roberto Clemente |
Russell Conwell | Feltonville Arts & Sciences | Hancock Demo @ LaBrum | Warren G. Harding | Austin Meehan |
MYA - Middle Years Alt | Science Leadership Academy | Tilden | Gen. Louis Wagner | Grover Washington Jr. |
Woodrow Wilson | | | | |
Academy @ Palumbo | Arts Academy @ Benjamin Rush | John Bartram | William W. Bodine | Building 21 |
Central | Constitution | Creative & Performing Arts | Murrell Dobbins | Thomas A. Edison |
Engineering & Science | Samuel Fels | Frankford | Franklin Learning Center | Benjamin Franklin |
Horace Furness | Girard Academic Music Program | Phila. HS for Girls | High School of the Future | Hill-Freedman World Academy |
Kensington CAPA | Kensington Health Sciences | Kensington | Martin Luther King | Lankenau |
Abraham Lincoln | Jules E. Mastbaum | Julia R. Masterman | Motivation | Northeast |
Overbrook | Parkway Center City | Parkway West | Parkway Northwest | Penn Treaty |
Philadelphia Military Academy | Philadelphia Virtual Academy | Randolph Technical | Paul Robeson | Roxborough |
Walter B. Saul | William L. Sayre | Science Leadership Academy @ Beeber | Science Leadership Academy | South Philadelphia |
Strawberry Mansion | Swenson Arts/Tech | The LINC | The U School | The Workshop School |
George Washington | West Philadelphia | | | |
Paint & Plaster Stabilization
In addition to our Lead Safe Certification program, we also perform full paint and plaster stabilization projects at certain schools. Visit the Paint & Plaster Stabilization page for more information!
Last modified: December 12, 2019