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Rhawnhurst Elementary School is an American elementary school that is located in the Rhawnhurst, Philadelphia neighborhood which is in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is a public school apart of the School District of Philadelphia.

History
This school was built in 1948 during the Baby Boom that created the needs for housing. Up until then, the neighborhood that the school was located in was mainly farmland. The school featured brown brick walls and a temporary modular classroom at the back of the school surrounded by asphalt with a parking lot.

The school was named after the neighborhood it was in which was Rhawnhurst, Philadelphia.

Present Day
The school won a Nation Blue Ribbon award from the National Blue Ribbon Schools Program for the 2019-2020 school year. The school was supposed to have a renovation but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the renovations had been delayed and it is still currently pending for the bid process.