Overbrook School for the Blind

Overbrook School for the Blind
Location
6333 Malvern Ave

,
19151

Information
Former namePennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind (until 1946)
Established1832
FounderJulius Reinhold Friedlander
Head of schoolTodd Reeves (since 2017)
Websiteobs.org

The Overbrook School for the Blind (OBS) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was established in 1832. Its present site, in the city's Overbrook neighborhood, was acquired in 1890. Along with the Pennsylvania School for the Deaf, the Western Pennsylvania School for Blind Children and the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf, it is one of four state-approved charter schools for blind and deaf children in Pennsylvania.