Parents

Graduation Requirements

  • Students Must Meet the Pennsylvania Act 158 Requirements.
  • The total number of credits must meet or exceed 23.5 credits.
  • One elective must be in math or science; the total number of math and science credits is a minimum of seven.
  • One History credit must be in African-American History.
  • All students must complete their ILPs in 10th and 11th grades. (Exception ONLY for new students who began at SLA in the upper grades.)
  • All students must pass their four-year advisories.
  • All students must COMPLETE a Capstone project.
  • Advisory counts as .5 Humanities credits per year
  • 9th Grade Mini-Courses, Independent Leaning Plan & Capstone counts as .5 Electives credits per year

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Home & School
2024 – 2025 Home & School Officers

  • President: Karima Ropel
  • Executive Vice President: open
  • Communications Vice President: Erin Richburg
  • Treasurer: Marc Hensley
  • Co-Treasurer: open
  • Recording Secretary: Monika Jest

2024-25 Parent Representatives

  • Fuel the Rocket Campaign Manager: Iwan Baranky
  • Auction Chairs: Farah Kapoor & Daphne Hawkins Parker
  • Senior Parents: Iwan Baranky and Farah Kapoor
  • Junior Parent: open
  • Sophomore Parent: JJ Shirley
  • Freshman Parent: open

Advisors

  • Principal: Chris Lehmann
  • Faculty Representative: Zoe Siswick

The Home and School Association’s Website

The Home and School Association’s Facebook Page

Home and School Meeting Schedule — 2024-2025

DISTRICT FAMILY ENGAGEMENT INFORMATION:
The new District-Wide Parent and Family Engagement Policy has been approved by the SRC and is available on our website here – The Spanish version is here – Other versions can be found online here

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Parent Portals

SLA’s website includes a portal that gives students access to many of the web-based communication and publication tools including SLATE and Canvas — our online course software, and GSuite tools. It enables teachers and students to create online spaces for each course, allowing them to communicate about assignments, school events, and more. Parents and guardians can check student assignments by emailing the child’s advisor for login access. The School District of Philadelphia also has a parent portal for formal grades and progress on standardized testing. In addition, parents will receive frequent emails from the school via our parent list-serv. We will subscribe all requested email addresses the first week of school. If you do not receive the parent emails. Contact your child’s advisor with any questions or concerns about the Portals.

Resources/Policies

Attention families: The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), a Federal law, requires that a school with certain exceptions obtain your written consent prior to the disclosure of personally identifiable information from your child’s education records. However, a school may disclose appropriately designated “directory information” without written consent, unless you have advised the school to the contrary in accordance with school district procedures.

Parents who wish to opt their students out of directory information releases must complete an Opt-Out Form for each of their students, and must return each form to the school at which each student is enrolled by December 13, 2024.

Find more information, including the forms you need HERE.

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