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Greater Philadelphia offers a wide range of public and private K-12 schools – traditional public schools, magnet public schools centered around a specific curriculum, religious schools and independent private schools. The diversity of the educational opportunities available for K-12 students provides parents with a wide range of choices in selecting the schools that best meet the educational needs of their children, their income, and their values.
- 125 public school districts provide the Greater Philadelphia region with a total of 1,350 schools.
- Vocational-technical high schools are available in every Greater Philadelphia county.
- 1,240 private and religious schools offer programs from pre-K through grade 12.
- New Jersey and Pennsylvania made the top 10 in Morgan Quintos Press’s fifth annual Smartest State Award, which is published in the reference book “Education State Rankings 2006-2007.”
- In May 2006, Expansion Management ranked Greater Philadelphia's public schools the fifth best in the nation.
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