More full-service kitchens open

This article was originally published in The Notebook. In August 2020, The Notebook became Chalkbeat Philadelphia.

More full-service kitchens open The School District reports that it now operates full-service kitchens providing lunch at 107 schools, up from 67 four years ago. Twelve full-service kitchens started up at schools this year, with plans to convert about a dozen more over the summer.

The majority of schools served by the Division of Food Services – 131 locations – still have pre-plated meals and lack the capacity to prepare food from scratch. Those kitchens do keep food cooled or frozen and heat items as required.

All the city’s District-run high schools, with the exception of Constitution High (located in a leased facility), offer full-service kitchens. The 56 other schools with full-service kitchens are listed here. The list includes elementary, middle, and alternative schools. Schools with asterisks are new to the list this year.

• Baldi
• Barry
• Beeber
• Boone
• Childs
• Clemente/LINC
• Comly
• Conwell
• Cooke*
• Crossroads Hunting Park
• de Burgos
• Decatur
• Excel – Camelot
• Farrell*
• Fell*
• Feltonville Arts & Sciences
• Feltonville Intermediate
• Finletter
• FitzPatrick
• Fox Chase*
• Frank*
• Franklin Elem
• Hancock
• Harding*
• Hartranft
• Holme
• Houston*
• Hunter
• Juniata Park Academy
• LaBrum*
• Lamberton
• Lawton
• Leeds
• Muñoz-Marín
• Middle Years Alternative
• One Bright Ray
• Overbrook Education Center
• Patterson*
• Penn Alexander
• Phase4 @ Franklin Mills
• Phila Learning Academy South
• Pollock*
• Rhawnhurst
• Rhodes
• Roosevelt
• Shawmont
• Spruance
• Taylor
• Marshall, Thurgood
• Tilden
• Wagner*
• Washington, Grover Jr.
• Widener
• Wilson*
• Wister
• Ziegler