Kensington High School students to be relocated for the start of the school year

Updated 2 hours ago
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- There are new details about the relocation of Kensington High School students for the first half of this upcoming school year, after asbestos was found in the current building.

400 students at Kensington are being transferred to the vacant Austin Meehan Middle School in the Northeast.

There had been safety concerns because it's next to Lincoln High which has 2,200 students and Propel Academy, with 1,700 elementary students.

The district says it is adding two more safety officers to the new location. With one being at Meehan and one specifically there before and after school.

The schools will also have a staggered arrival and departure times.



None of the schools will share school buses.

This comes after a lawsuit was filed Thursday by a parent and a community member, trying to stop the relocation before classes.

A judge denied that injunction Friday.

However, the attorney for the plaintiffs tells us he will refile the lawsuit if "the district is not true to its word".

Kensington High is expected to reopen in January, once the remediation work is complete.
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