{"id":271002,"date":"2026-08-24T03:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T03:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/271002\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T03:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T03:04:07","slug":"kensington-high-school-students-relocated-over-asbestos-issue-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/271002\/","title":{"rendered":"Kensington High School students relocated over asbestos issue \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hundreds of Kensington High School students will begin the 2026-2027 school year Monday at a temporary location in Philadelphia’s Mayfair neighborhood as the school deals with an asbestos issue<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A judge ruled Friday<\/a> that the district can temporarily relocate 415 Kensington students and 90 staff members to a vacant former middle school building. A new “Kensington High School” sign now partially covers the faded name of the middle school that closed in 2022.<\/p>\n

Lincoln High School, which houses around 2,200 students, is located on the other side of the building.<\/p>\n

Some neighbors have raised concerns about increased congestion and the influx of high school students in the area, particularly with the two schools located close together.<\/p>\n

Kensington typically has four safety officers. The district added a fifth officer at the temporary location, as well as a sixth part-time officer for arrival and dismissal. The district also released a security plan Friday.<\/p>\n

Neighbor Luis Orozco said he still has concerns despite those measures.<\/p>\n

“Terrible. This is too much. Too close, too tight for the kids and the school is the same thing. I believe\u2026 not good,” Orozco said.<\/p>\n

Orozco said he plans to be outside the temporary Kensington High School location around 7:30 a.m. Monday as students arrive.<\/p>\n

This story was originally reported for broadcast by NBC Philadelphia. AI tools helped convert the story to a digital article, and an NBC Philadelphia journalist edited the article for publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds of Kensington High School students will begin the 2026-2027 school year Monday at a temporary location in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70,8973],"class_list":["post-271002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-school-district"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}