Martin Luther King High School is a neighborhood public high school located in the Germantown section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...

 at the intersection of Stenton Avenue and Haines Street. It is a neighborhood school, meaning no application is necessary for those students that live in the Oak Lane

West Oak Lane, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

West Oak Lane is a neighborhood in the Northwest Philadelphia section of Philadelphia. It is located between East Mount Airy, East Germantown, Cheltenham, Montgomery County, East Oak Lane, and Fern Rock. Ogontz Avenue runs generally north, then northwest as the spine of the neighborhood and the...

, Mt. Airy and northern Germantown

Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Germantown is a neighborhood in the northwest section of the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, about 7–8 miles northwest from the center of the city...

 section of Philadelphia. The school opened in 1973.

As of the school year 2005-2006 it had a school population of 1,780, mostly African-American. Programs at Martin Luther King High School include JROTC, Business and Computers Technology. Their team mascot is the cougar and their rivals are the Germantown High School

Germantown High School (Philadelphia)

Germantown High School is a secondary school located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.GHS, located in Germantown, is a part of the School District of Philadelphia....

 Bears.

Standard dress code

King students are required to wear solid light-colored tops and solid dark-colored bottoms. Their Junior ROTC program was awarded the honor unit award on April 19, 2007. Their school colors are Purple and Gold.
http://www.phila.k12.pa.us/offices/osm/uniforms/#k.

Notable alumni

• Eve
  Eve (rapper)
  Eve Jihan Jeffers , is an American rapper, songwriter, record producer and actress. Her first three albums have reached a total of over 8 million albums sold worldwide. She has also achieved success in fashion as she started a clothing line titled "Fetish." She won a Grammy Award in 2002 for the...
  
  , female rapper
• Stefon Jackson
  Stefon Jackson
  Stefon Jackson is an American professional basketball player. As of the 2011–12 season he plays for G.S. Olympia Larissa B.C. in Greece. He is 6'5", weighs 185 lbs. and plays shooting guard. While playing college basketball at UTEP between 2005 and 2009, Jackson scored a Conference USA-record...
  
  , professional basketball player

External links

• Martin Luther King High School