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In the mid-1960s it received an auditorium and gymnasium,[4] and prior to 1976 it received a renovation. By then the neighborhood became mostly white and wealthy.[5] By 1976 the school became one of the highest-ranked schools in Philadelphia; the student body of McCall reflected the wealthier and white majority demographics.[6] According to Black Enterprise, the demographic and academic transformation of McCall was a demonstration of the phrase "The better the neighborhood, the better the schools."[5]

By September 1998 the school, which had 650 students, established a bilingual English-Chinese program to serve Chinese American students, and that month it began hiring teachers fluent in both languages to teach core subjects. At the time 25% of the students were Chinese, and the number of Chinese students had doubled in the previous two-year period.[1] Russell Scott Smith of Edutopia wrote that in 2004, compared with other schools in Philadelphia, "McCall already had a fairly good reputation for academic rigor and safety" and that by 2009 it had improved even more.[7] In 2012 Kristen A. Graham of The Philadelphia Inquirer stated that McCall was one of "the district's stronger neighborhood schools".[8]

In 1976 Black Enterprise stated that there is more emphasis on saving historical buildings in Philadelphia compared to other major American cities; it stated that "in any other large American city it would probably have been torn down by now."[11]

The school received a "cybrary" (cyber library) in 2007—a library facility with 22 computers and materials in Mandarin Chinese financed by fundraisers and bake sales.[12]

In 1993 the school district began a school bus route between Chinatown and McCall.[14] The school is 1.4英里（2.3） away from the furthest point of Chinatown.[15] The district was not required to install the route, but parents advocated for the route because they believed that traffic at Market Street and Washington Square endangered their children. When the district proposed to eliminate the route in 1994, parents complained.[14]

All persons zoned to McCall are also zoned to Benjamin Franklin High School.[16] Previously Furness High School was the zoned high school for McCall zone residents.[17]