Northeast Community Propel Academy Opens in Northeast Philadelphia

This is what it’s like inside Philly’s brand-new, $80 million school in the Northeast

PHILADELPHIA, PA (September 2, 2021) — A new, $80 million school has risen in booming Northeast Philadelphia.

Northeast Community Propel Academy — the first new neighborhood school in the Philadelphia School District in years — welcomed 1,200 students Tuesday.

The sprawling K-8 building on Rowland Avenue, not far from Lincoln High School, will help ease overcrowding in a number of bursting-at-the-seams Northeast schools. Pupils from Propel Academy were drawn from Mayfair, J.H. Brown and Forrest Elementaries; the school will also replace Meehan Middle School, which will close at the end of this school year.