MASTBAUM
HIGH SCHOOL
ABOUT MASTBAUM
Dear Mastbaum Students and Parents/Guardians:
Here at Mastbaum, We Build the Future.
Mastbaum students experience and gain a world-class education, by demonstrating vocational and academic excellence, and continuing to develop their unique, tremendously vibrant talents, and skill-sets. Each and every student is a vitally important individual at Mastbaum, in our community, and in our global society.
Mastbaum has exceptional and caring teachers and superior academic and career and technical education programs. Mastbaum’s career and technical education programs include automotive, business, carpentry, culinary arts, electrical, graphic design, health care, medical records, and welding.
Students at Mastbaum are very successful and are provided with exceptional experiences, which include job and scholarship opportunities, paid internships, and partnerships with community organizations and businesses. The area’s largest employers such as SEPTA, the Philadelphia Electric Company, Philadelphia Gas Works, Elliot Lewis, and the NorthEast Building Products work with Mastbaum students.
As always, we look forward to working with our students.
Mastbaum. We Build the Future.
Best wishes toward continued success,
Dr. W. David Bowman, Principal
Our Mission
Mastbaum will develop, continually assess, modify, and sustain a personalized learning community that will promote and provide 21st Century learning opportunities and successfully prepare students for global career and college pathways.
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Our History
Some people claim that the history of Mastbaum Vocational-Technical School begins with its opening. Others believe that it has its beginnings in the efforts of a small group of far-seeing men who sought to establish a fully equipped vocational school for the boys and girls of Philadelphia. Outstanding in that group was Dr William Ziegler of the Board of Public Education. Given the privilege of selecting a name for the school he chose Jules E. Mastbaum, whose life he hoped would prove an inspiration to vocational students.
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