Charter’s high schoolers must find new schools

A meeting was held Monday night for the high school students of Walter D. Palmer Leadership Learning Partners Charter School to meet representatives of other charters, Catholic schools and district schools where they may soon be studying, after all high school classes were abruptly ended today.

“West Philadelphia [High School] has come out as an option; they have the space to accommodate more students than they have currently enrolled, and it could be possible to keep Palmer students intact,” said Maura Pennington, a spokeswoman for the school.

Last week, the school announced that high school classes were ending Monday at the high school’s Frankford campus.

Two weeks ago, 260 students from the lower grades were selected by lottery to leave the school.

With classes for 286 high school students canceled, the enrollment number will return to 675.