Legal Opinion
Pottstown School District v. Hill School
Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania
Decided November 1, 2001PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEADBETTER, Judge.
Pottstown School District appeals from the order of the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas, which affirmed the tax-exempt status of the Hill School, an all-male private school providing college *314preparatory courses. Specifically at issue is whether the Hill School’s exclusion of women from its student body precludes it from claiming an exemption as a purely public charity.
The Hill School is located in the Potts-town School District in Montgomery County. Prior to September 1998,1 the School limited its enrollment to young men only. In May 1996, the Pottstown School…
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