Jenks serves children from kindergarten through eighth grade and has a student population of about 600.

It was built in Tudor Revival/Late Gothic Revival style and designed by Irwin T. Catharine, longtime architect for the school district.

His home, Inglewood Cottage, designed by Cope & Stewardson, is also located in Chestnut Hill.

[3] He served on the Philadelphia Board of Education and was an avid collector and numismatist.

He believed coin collecting was “instructive to any young girl or boy” for learning geography, history and languages.