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.

Pre-K Programs

Alexander Adaire Pre-K	Ethel Allen Bright Futures	Add B. Anderson Bright Futures	Bache-Martin Bright Futures	Clara Barton Head Start
Mary McLeod Bethune Head Start	James Blaine Head Start	Rudolph Blankenburg Head Start	F. Amadee Bregy Head Start	William Bryant Head Start
Catharine Annex Head Start	George Childs @ Barratt Head Start	Cook-Wissahickon Head Start	William Cramp Head Start	A.B. Day Head Start
Tanner Duckrey Head Start	F.S. Edmonds Bright Futures	Ellwood Head Start	Eleanor Emlen Pre-K	Aloysius Fitzpatrick Head Start & Bright Futures
Edwin Forrest Bright Futures	Edward Gideon Head Start	Horatio Hackett Bright Futures & Head Start	Haverford Center Bright Futures	Edward Heston Head Start
Austin Meehan Head Start	Fanny Jackson Coppin Head Start	W.D. Kelley Head Start	Eliza Kirkbride Head Start	L.P. Hill - Today's Child Head Start
Robert Lamberton Bright Futures	Henry Lawton Head Start	Henry Lea Head Start	William Loesche Bright Futures	James Logan Head Start
W.C. Longstreth Head Start	James Lowell Bright Futures	Mastery-Cleveland Center (Ren Charter) Bright Futures	Alexander McClure Bright Futures	William McKinley Head Start
Morton McMichael Head Start	George Meade Head Start	Thomas Mifflin Head Start	George Nebinger Bright Futures	John Patterson Head Start
Joseph Pennell Head Start	Samuel Pennypacker Pre-K	Pratt Center Head Start	Prince Hall Head Start	Rhawnhurst Bright Futures
APM Rivera Center Head Start	George Sharswood Head Start	Shawmont Bright Futures	South Philadelphia HS Head Start	Southwark Head Start
Gilbert Spruance Head Start	Edwin Stanton Bright Futures	Edward Steel Head Start	John Taggart Head Start	Bayard Taylor Head Start
APM Trinidad Center Head Start	Turner Center Head Start	Vare-Washington Head Start	George Washington HS Bright Futures	John Webster Head Start
Willard Annex Head Start	Richard Wright Head Start
Rivera	Catherine Annex Head Start	Feltonville Head Start	Hartranft Community Center	Haverford - Bright Futures
Pratt Head Start	Trinidad Head Start	Washington Pre-K	South Philadelphia Pre-K

Elementary Schools

Alexander Adaire	Dr. Ethel Allen	Ethan Allen	Add B. Anderson	Chester A. Arthur
Bache-Martin (Martin Building) Bache-Martin (Bache Building)	Barton	Mary McLeod Bethune	James G. Blaine	Rudolph Blankenburg
Amedee F. Bregy	Bridesburg	Bridesburg Annex	Henry A. Brown	Joseph H. Brown
William C. Bryant	Laura H. Carnell	Joseph Catharine	Cayuga	Childs
Benjamin B. Comegys	Watson Comly	Cook-Wissahickon	Jay Cooke	William Cramp
Kennedy C. Crossan	Anna B. Day	Stephen Decatur	William Dick	Hamilton Disston
James Dobson	Tanner Duckrey	Paul L. Dunbar	Franklin S. Edmonds	Lewis Elkin
Ellwood	Eleanor C. Emlen	Louis H. Farrell	D. Newlin Fell	Feltonville Intermediate
Thomas K. Finletter	Fitler	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	John Hancock
Avery D. Harrington	John F. Hartranft	Charles W. Henry	Edward Heston	Thomas Holme
Francis Hopkinson	Henry Houston	Julia Howe	Fanny Jackson Coppin	J.S. Jenks Academy Arts Sciences
Abram Jenks	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	John Marshall	Daroff	Bluford
Mayfair	Gen. George A. McCall	Alexander K. McClure	Morton McMichael	John F. McCloskey
Delaplaine McDaniel	McDaniel Annex	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	George W. Nebinger	Olney Olney Annex	Overbrook Educational Center
Overbrook	Patterson	Jospeh Pennell	Samuel Pennypacker	Penrose
Robert B. Pollock	Potter-Thomas	Swing Space (Previously Samuel Powel)	Prince Hall	Rhawnhurst
James Rhoads	E.W. Rhodes	Richmond	Roosevelt	William Rowen
George Sharswood	Shawmont	Isaac A. Sheppard	Philip H. Sheridan
Southwark	Spring Garden	Gilbert Spruance	Edwin M. Stanton	Allen M. Stearne
Edward Steel	James J. Sullivan	John H. Taggart	Bayard Taylor	Taylor Annex (Our Lady of Pompeii)
Vare-Washington	Laura W. Waring	Martha Washington	John H. Webster	John Welsh
Widener Memorial	Richard R. Wright	William H. Ziegler

Middle Schools

AMY 5 @ James Martin	Academy for the Middle Years at Northwest	Baldi	Russell Conwell	Feltonville Arts & Sciences
Hancock Demonstration @ LaBrum	Warren G. Harding	Austin Meehan	MYA - Middle Years Alt	Tilden
Gen. Louis Wagner	Woodrow Wilson

High Schools

Academy @ Palumbo	Arts Academy @ Benjamin Rush	John Bartram John Bartram Field House	William W. Bodine	Building 21
Constitution	Creative & Performing Arts	Murrell Dobbins	Frankford Frankford Field House	Franklin Learning Center
Benjamin Franklin	Horace Furness	Girard Academic Music Program	Phila. HS for Girls	Hill-Freedman World Academy
Kensington	Martin Luther King	Lankenau	Jules E. Mastbaum	Julia R. Masterman
Motivation	Northeast	Overbrook	Parkway Center City	Parkway West @ Sulzberger
Parkway Northwest	Penn Treaty	Philadelphia Learning Academy West	Philadelphia Military Academy	Philadelphia Virtual Academy
Randolph Technical	Paul Robeson	Roxborough	Walter B. Saul	William L. Sayre
Science Leadership Academy @ Beeber	South Philadelphia South Philadelphia Field House	Strawberry Mansion	Swenson Arts/Tech	The U School @ Ferguson
The Workshop School	George Washington George Washington Field House	West Philadelphia Field House