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Eliza Butler Kirkbride School

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Eliza Butler Kirkbride School is a K–8 school located in the Passyunk Square neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is a part of the School District of Philadelphia.

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The historic school building was designed by Irwin T. Catharine and built in 1925–1926. It is a four-story, five-bay, yellow reinforced concrete building faced in brick and limestone in the Late Gothic Revival-style. It features a projecting central entrance with floral and heraldic plaques in the spandrel, decorative panels, and a crenellated parapet. Each register contains three openings with limestone sills and lintels. A limestone dripcourse appears over the basement openings. The projecting end registers feature window bands with ornamental panels between the floors. These panels were a standard feature on some of Catharine's designs and often contained the datestone as one of the decorative panels.[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.[1]

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History

By 1990 the school had a Head Start Program preschool program.[3]

Demographics

In 1999 the school had 660 students, with over 50% of them being Asian.[4]

In the 1998–1999 school year the school began a pilot bilingual English-Cambodian (Khmer) program for its immigrant students.[5] By 1999 the school provided basic Cambodian lessons for the non-Cambodian students. In 1999 Cambodians made up almost 33% of the total student body.[4]

As of 2015 the school has an English Language Learner (ELL) program with 200 students, with support from Chinese, Khmer, and Vietnamese-speaking counselor assistants, in addition to a bilingual counselor who speaks Chinese and Vietnamese.[6]

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Feeder patterns

Neighborhoods assigned to Kirkbride are also assigned to Furness High School.[7][8]

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