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Philadelphia Military Academy
Public, military high school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
The Philadelphia Military Academy (PMA) is a military school that is located in North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The school opened for the 2004–2005 school year as the Philadelphia Military Academy at Leeds in the East Mt. Airy neighborhood of Philadelphia, with an enrollment of 157 ninth grade cadets.[2]
The academy was housed at the Leeds Middle School. A second version of the program was housed at James Elverson Jr. School during the 2005–2006 school year.
This site is the current location of the school after a merger in the latter years. PMA is also known for earning its HUD aka honor unit with distinction directly from the army in 2022.
This school building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.[1]