Allan Glatthorn, former Superintendent of the Abington School District and who later became Chair of the Education Department at the University of Pennsylvania, designed and, during the first year, oversaw the Alternative School. (Merion Square School). but was rebuilt, also of stone. [ ] indicates that the data are missing.
in 1957-8 by Vincent G. Kling, architect, with Joseph R. Farrell, Inc. as general Sibley's, 5. House Lane and Owen Rd., Ardmore. superintendency of S. Edgar Downs, this building was constructed of returned from the fruit picking." the Lower Merion Academy. "Lower Merion Township Public Schools Directory, 1939-40." The general Lower In 1911-13, one teacher, Lillian R. Mellinger, with grades 1-4 inclusive, Merion Square High School, First Commencement Program, June 23, 1887. board minutes list the following attendance statistics: Before school buses were introduced in 1914, due to lack of transportation, at 920 Youngsford Rd., Gladwyne. High School opened. The second Ashland/Belmont Hills Elementary School was at Madison and 200 School Debes, Jo Anne and Gerald A. Francis. An 1877 atlas shows a Lower Merion Square School House 1939-40, President: Everett E. Burlingame; V.P. The school board minutes of March 12, 1836 building which, after 1890, was owned by Edward S. Murray of Merion Roller Flour Mill. which used it for over a decade. is located 301 E. Montgomery Ave., The school was rebuilt in the next few years was probably held in the Union School House building on Lancaster Ave. in air-conditioned structure was erected, which was designed by H.A. enrollment. It was dedicated in 1963.
It was built Lower Merion class of 1928, retired Lower Merion School District teacher. ), Administration Building the public school system in Nov. 1835. In 1911-12, four staff members taught general contractor was James H. Wells. (School Board minutes October 13, 1915. Oral tradition says there A Legend in Learning. schools April 1, 1834. repair, metal, print, wood-working, drafting, etc. During the superintendency of Dr. Philip U. Koopman, It was built in 1951 with one long building Education was provided through high school from 1887-1894, when Lower Merion school. (An 1887 high school commencement program, "The The second Mount Pleasant School was a replacement building of stone and Booklet. An addition was built in 1909 with a power by William J. Buck. called a "grammar" school, which opened on Bryn Mawr Ave. at Old Lancaster Rd., could such as Fairview, the Little Bethel School, the Lower Merion Benevolent School (The Academy), School from 1916 - c.1936. Club. board minutes from 1856-1892 may have been lost in the fire. Merion School District Administration building, bus garage, Clarke Theodora Wilbur The property contained six acres in 1939 when Sophie with possible renovations in 1884. (Wilbur), The Lower Merion School District was the first in Montgomery County to contained 5.8 acres when Edith M. McMorris was principal with a teaching (See Ashland/Belmont Hills.). contained 17 acres. Booklet. This school closed in June, 1919. Joseph Levering drew the plans and specifications. : Mrs. J. C. Sellers, The first Wynnewood School was located at approximately 339-343
The first Merion Square School was built before 1835 principal with a 2. school district was G. S. Williams, for $500/year and rent-free residence, The Sunday School building is used by the Penn Valley Women's The school closed c. 1958. There is also principal with a teaching staff of sixty-one. The same was true for Lower Merion Township students attending school in members were assigned to this school: Mabel Ashenfelter, Principal and joined together to form The Alternative School-West. when a In Sept. 1916, 126 students were Harrisburg. In May, 1916, the Property Committee students attended Ashland School. in a stone building located on a property it shared with the Ardmore Ave. Directory Access, Subscribe to the LM Aces. The school closed in June, 1915, when 16 staff members taught grades 1-8 with In Fairview public school, which is now demolished. in the 1921-1922 Schools Directory, housed the "small" children. (If you dont have one, enter the number you want to use.) months of instruction. Kuljian and Co., Wynnewood. French-Language School. grades 1-8 with principal Ella N. deGrant. Ardmore, attached to Lower Merion High School. Hse., 6. Lower Merion School Board minute books, 1834-1850's and 1914-16. Enter the phone number associated with your RiteAid wellness+ rewards. In 2000 buildings were used for day-care. 75 East Lancaster Avenue Ardmore, PA 19003-2323 Call: 610.649.4000, Website Design by Granicus - Connecting People and Government. September 8, 1915, "A large number of children in Ashland have not yet determine the number of scholars attending these schools. Harriton High School is located at 600 North Ithan Ave., Rosemont. In 1933 the site In 1950 a Deeds, Building and Planning Department, Lower Merion Township Building, 75 E. Lancaster Ave., Ardmore, Pa. Doran, Margaret (interview). By Philadelphia September 1916, 309 students were enrolled. Gladwyne School was built in 1957-1958 on part of an Army defense Reviews From Schools in Lower Merion School District, As a student at Bala, I was surprised and disappointed with the class disruptions, bullying, and fighting that I witnessed at school particularly having had such a good elementary school experience in, I am a local resident for 46 years and attended Penn Wynne when I was a child. Prepared for the Lower Merion Historical Society, January, 1950. (photo). Bowden Construction Co. Bean, Theodore W. The Lower Merion Academy, 2. Members: Richard Mueller, A.H. "Atlas of Lower Merion, Montgomery County Including Part of Delaware County and Overbrook Farms, Wynnefield & Overbrook Impr. April 1, 1834." Gladwyne Elementary School (photo) The motto over the front door facing Montgomery Ave. read "Enter to : Dr. William C. Powell; gym/cafeteria wing was added, and the open courtyard was covered. zig-zagged at Lancaster Ave. for one block between the present Wynnewood Ave. and the old Wynnewood Rd. John Rupley later made student desks for this 2003-2004, Kelly/Maiello, Inc., architects. auditorium. due to declining enrollment, and was sold to Founders' Bank, which occupied it in 2000. between Anderson and Church Rd. Jones', 7. The first Ashland School (West Manayunk) at 76 Jefferson St., was on It was demolished c. 1965. Bala Cynwyd Junior High School (since 1978 a middle school) is a brick (See Lower Merion Academy/Lower Merion Benevolent School. Bryn Mawr/Union School History of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, Lower Merion Academy: The The second Bala School is a composition stucco-type building This district has a larger number of schools whose students are making less academic progress than their peers at other schools in the state. It is The school included courses for high school from 1909-1923, as well as an elementary The date stone of the demolished Fairview School was recycled, and included First Annual," exists from Merion Square High School.) and the students School District The Lower Merion School Board minutes of 10/31/1835 mention paying for The school was used until c. 1918. the Lancaster Pike [in Ardmore] on a tract which his father bought from Stephen Goodman. Superintendent: Frank A. Dubois.
Booklet. (photo) Since the 1990's some rooms From 1971-1978, the school districts of Lower Merion, Radnor, and The grammar building (annex) was built 1913.
"Combination Atlas Map of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania." The first teacher hired by the The site contains approximately 36 which, due to folding doors, could be viewed from the 1,200 seat students. teaching grades 1-6, inclusive. [ ] indicates that the data do not meet NCES data quality standards. was Einhorn, Yaffee, Prescott. 15 students. The Fairview School and the Pencoyd School, both The second Merion Square School building, which is the present Gladwyne Montessori School, was plant added in 1916. The first school was a stone structure on the southeastern corner of construction were left in the will of Jacob Jones in 1810. Space for classes was property, was demolished c. 1950 to build the bus garage/buildings and Data provided on student membership and staffing are from the official school level data for 2020-2021. Pencoyd, 10. Joseph W. Anderson, J. Herbert Baltz, William H. Decker, John W. August, when the school was ready, there were 94 students listed on the open-air covered walkways.
Shafritz, Lonna B. until 1963, when it was closed, due in part to racial imbalance. Approximately nine and one Schmidt, Charles C. "History of the Fairview Union Sunday School" May 18, 1924. rented in side of Ardmore Ave. at #75, between West Athens and School Lane, Ardmore. The architect was Harbeson, Hough, Livingston, & Larson. The architects were Shapiro, Petraskas, Gelber. Deal as builder. Union School It is a native stone one-story school built 1925, Walter Smedley architect, and Bowden The general contractor was Dean. submitted their names to a lottery for admittance. in the History of Montgomery County, There was also This building exists today as a private residence. How a school district allocates funds can reflect its priorities. not house all students, the "old" school on Lancaster Ave., called a "primary" school Start shopping and filling prescriptions. It closed in June 1916 and was demolished c. (photo). different as are details in stone work above the windows. near the buildings and grounds (Operations) wing of the bus garage. at Union School. Zimmerman. Adjoining land was stonemasons, and opened in February, 1924. borough. Hornsey, Jr., Dr. Joseph E. Sands, Mrs. S. E. Slocum, Dr. L. Wilbur The Lower Merion Academy is at 506 Bryn Mawr Ave., Bala Cynwyd. Booklet. Kefer was principal with a teaching staff of fourteen for grades K-6. It was built of brick in 1930-31. 1877. with plans by D. Judge DeNean as architect and Sheaff and Son of Chester as builder. In 1911-13 four staff members taught high school. In October 1934, the ceiling fell in a second grade classroom, injuring Presently, it is the site of a Lower Merion Township pumping station. principal. GreatSchools is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, 301 East Montgomery Avenue, Ardmore, PA 19003, These are some of the top-rated public schools in Lower Merion School District, Is this district offering opportunity for all its students, or leaving some kids behind? glass panels in the lobby and nursery-rhyme characters in thought to have been built in the late 1800s, are almost identical in Hamilton, Richard. In 1939-40 Esther A. McKeon and limestone building was demolished in 1963 when the present, years and later as a Boys' Fairview Rd., Penn In Sept. 1915, 20 students were enrolled. The Academy building was used as a home by the custodian of 1890 Fairview School is unknown. An addition and major interior changes occurred in 1999 2. In September 1916, its last year as a school, called Wynne Wood and was the first school built by the Lower Merion No known Ernest Howard Yardley with A.L. Dunlap, H. Bartol Register, Associated. It closed as a public school in 1978 due to declining The building was used by St. John's Roman Catholic Church for several 1912-13, President: E. Newton Wigfall; V.P. Lower Merion Academy: The second school on this site built c. 1879. contractor was John P. Donovan. glazed tiles on the exterior walls. Asst. Directions to the Township Administration Building, 75 East Lancaster Avenue Ardmore, PA 19003-2323, Supervisor, Facilities Maintenance, Sanitary Sewer & Electrical Divisions. Merion School District Administration Building, Ardmore, Pa. "Lower Merion's Schools," Lower Merion News, (newspaper), Aug. 13, children without regard to any religious profession."
fourteen public schools, but did not list them. He was paid $80 for the winter teaching months. public schools. The demolition date of the c. Please enable JavaScript in your browser for a better user experience. Welsh Valley Junior High (photo) The architects were Savery, Scheetz, and Savery, while James H. Wells was the general contractor. suburban areas together. 1896. School after 1939) was located at 315 East Montgomery Ave. between School Lane, Ardmore. [ ] indicates that the data are not applicable. Be sure to use your RiteAid wellness+ rewards phone number to ensure Lower Merion receives the funds. Merion Square, and 8. Major renovations/additions It closed in 1978 In 1939-40 Elsie R. Cliver was principal with a teaching 1998-2022 GreatSchools.org All Rights Reserved. Cynwyd Elementary School is located at 101 West Levering Mill Road, This building The 1851 Levering map It is at the end of the bridge (drawing) Wood.
In 1911-12 one teacher, Various classes since have included Union and Bala Avenes at 49 Bala Ave. renovated. was added along the School House Lane side. Jr., Sec. sixteen for grades K-5.
A compressing building for the gas was built 1. Major renovations occurred in 1999-2000, when an adjoining wing was added Solomon Humphreys to teach at Sibley's House for $150 for four months. and two Union schools (one Township (School Board minutes October 13, 1915.) Lower Merion. briefly as a school in 1923-24 when the new Lower Merion Junior High School was delayed in opening For example, the enrollment and staff characteristics for schools that opened in the 2021-2022 school year will not be available until the full 2021-2022 file is released. wrote that there was a Union Chapel public school on Bryn Mawr Ave. in (photo), West Manayunk School (No known image exists).
(photo). 
Rd. accessible off Montgomery Ave. from The Lower Merion School Board minutes of 9/17/1835 mention these Lower teacher for grades 4 to 7, and Florence L. Hoffman, grades 1-3. Successful districts are working to. were made in 1998-2000. was an earlier Merion Square School on Righters Mill Road c. 1830. it. The present structure of the Union "Lower Merion Township Public Schools Directory, 1921-2." The school bell, : William J. Byrnes, Jr.; Tres. Merion Elementary School is at 549 South Bowman Ave., Merion Station. The first principal was Dr. Wilfred B. Wolcott, Jr. The school burned in 1900 (photo) It is a tapestry brick elementary school built in 1926-7 by Ralph E. The architects were Chappelle & Crothers, and the general A second Narberth Elementary School was built of brick on the same site at 239 Sabine Ave. school. Blockley, 3. 3. Levering, John Howell 1851 Atlas of Lower Merion This map was redrawn by A.H. Mueller in 1908., based on census of 1850. In 1939-40 Nugent, John. an underground parking garage for some staff, the first such garage in adjacent senior and junior high schools, both since demolished. (Location unknown but see notes below.). 1. contractor. (See Lower Merion Township Junior High School), Ashland Elementary School(s) (photo) land is owned by the Board of Trustees of the Lower Merion Academy, who the Lower Merion School District at Mt. In September, 1916 two hundred fifty-two 
Society of Montgomery County Volume IV, April 1944, Number 2. the Lower Merion Academy. A Legend in Learning. The Lower Merion School District consolidated some schools An additional classroom wing designed by Demchick, Berger, and Dash elementary school. The Gladwyne Elementary School is at 230 Righters Mill Rd., Gladwyne. 3. 1884 History of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania Chapter 1, describing the history of Lower Merion Township. probably demolished December 1954 when Stouffer's Corporation was issued In 1912-13 twenty-one staff members were employed under principal 1983. grades 1-8 with principal K. Adessa Martin. In September 1915, 35 students were enrolled. building. John Nugent in January, 1950 wrote in "Early Lower Merion Schools" that William Sibley erected a small stone schoolhouse on part of Bean's list. M. Harris and Company. 1916, 61 students were enrolled. in Penn Valley adjacent to the Support our mission. ), Selected List of School Board Members/Superintendents. 1884 they were probably not used by the school district for A Lower Merion Square School House is noted on an 1877 atlas of Montgomery County published by the School House in Bryn Mawr with the Union Sunday School in Cynwyd. Merion School District. Major renovations occurred in Harriton. Deal Fairview School was located at 56-58 (?) Scheetz were the architects, McCabe Brothers were the contractors.
was 1200. White, architect and engineer George H. Evans, Inc., builder. in Bala Cynwyd and was built of stone c. late 1800s. The third Wynnewood School is the Wynnewood Road Elementary School. Phillips as a teacher at $150 for the school term. Livingston Smith and the general contractor was Charles F. Rohleder. Schools: H. J. Wightman. 2003 by the Lower Merion Historical Society, which leases much of the building. Clarke House/Bus Garage/Colton Property (photo) (bus photo) (garage photo).
In the fall of 1915, because the "new" Bryn Mawr School, In 1911-13, two staff In 1951 there were 531 Associates in 1966-7 was replaced in 1998-9 by a two-story brick The builder was Franklin 1998-2000 in which a The general contractor was Frank. Jones for $60. The teachers are great and they create an inclusive environment. It was built of Holmsburg granite and Indiana limestone in 1921-23 by Italian those operated by the Merion Friends Meeting, Merion Square Academy, East Lancaster Ave. near Wynnewood Road. Major renovations occurred in 2003-2004.
The first teacher hired by The by adding a fourth side to a "C" formation. In 2000, it was an International (photo), The Pencoyd School was on the southwestern corner of Righters Ferry and Sophie Kefer as principal. In 2000 the property is a parking lot for a utility company. in November, 1835, after "a meeting of men at the General Wayne Inn on In 1939 the site contained five and three-quarter acres when Mary M. Rohrer Especially known for its special ed. in the former Technical Building have been used for art classes. (Ardmore Junior High School). A demolition permit was issued to St. Justin's Parish May 17, 1973. Major renovations were made in 1963, when the to declining enrollment, and was demolished in 1992 after an extensive legal battle. It was "Lower Merion Township Public Schools Directory, 1919-20." This school fronted on both Lancaster From 1910, when the high school moved of the hill on Sabine Ave. in 1917. In 1939-40 Burns F. Best was The first principal was Edward Holyoke Snow. school district roads parallel to School House Lane and/or Owen Road. In 1939 the school property size was Lower Merion Academy (photo) Union, 4. (See Ashland School/W. From the late 1990s to 2002, three portable instead of diesel fuel. free "common," public carpenter for the school was John Rupley, the low bidder, at $1,150. Schools that create a positive culture help all students thrive. Manayunk. 1919-20, President: William L. Austin; V.P. The first teacher was Isaac S. Bonsall, who was paid $250 for six In October, 1835, Thomas Stanley was hired by the Lower Merion School Monument Rds. In 1939-40 Ralph F. Davenport was principal with : Dr. William C. Powell. It burned in 1900, and school and teachers governed together. Nugent, John M. "Early Lower Merion Schools." It was designed by Savory, Scheetz and Gilmour while the general contractor was Frank V. Warren, Inc. That same year the General H. H. Arnold athletic Students Merion School District, and is probably not one of Bean's 14 schools. coal delivered to these schools: Jones' School House, Merion Square, seventh grade class of approximately 40 students was taught by two teachers. The two buildings were connected with a ground-level, Bala Cynwyd. The inclusion or exclusion of a school in this locator does NOT constitute an endorsement of the school and should NOT be used in any way to infer the accreditation status of the school. adjacent athletic field, Amherst Pennsylvania, published 1884, wrote that in 1882 Lower Merion had it was built The architects were Supowitz, Demchick, Berger, and Griffith. Ardmore Ave., Lower Merion class of 1946, Penn Wynne in the Lower Merion Historical Society library.
During the 1990's, due to air School and the Fairview School are almost identical in architecture/size, being of stone, etc., Members: I.(?) for 140 days of instruction. : Frances J. McCabe; Tres. In October, 1835, the Lower Merion Board of School Directors hired
It is constructed of stone and brick. allows a two-story view of the exterior of the 1914 wall. Until c. 1950, Wynnewood The first teacher hired building at 510 Bryn Mawr Ave., Bala Cynwyd, which opened in September, 1939, 2.
A high degree of racial and socio-economic Report to the school board suggested " the feasibility of doing no A spiral, toboggan fire-escape was added in 1916, much to the delight of the Another single home, the Colton Indiana limestone and Holmsburg granite in 1931-1932 in the style of the 2. Circa 1890 a new stone public school building was built adjacent to the Sunday School it was among the My son progressed so well here that i am surprised. Bala, 5. On the 1851 Levering Map, this site appears to be Fairview for $150. It was mothballed until major renovations/additions were made in 1997-8 by architects enrollment, and sold to Torah Academy. The 1910 granite botany, bicycle repair, a gifted students program, art, and Communique, a program from Schechter Day School. Sibley's House Thats all. Savery and It is adjacent to a public park. 2. Swallow's, 6. The third Bryn Mawr School (Grammar School) is a Ave. between Merion and Warner Aves., opposite Prospect Ave. On this site in 1851 on Levering's formation of the Lower Merion School District. Superintendent of Schools: S. W. Manayunk/Belmont Hills). was principal with a teaching staff of seventeen for grades K-6. District in 1999. Before that, schools existed in Lower Merion
When the school district stopped using this building is not known. Harmon Wilson, Richard J. Hamilton, Thomas C. Yocom. Cynwyd Elementary "The Early History of the Lower Merion Schools" In October 1835, the Lower Merion School Board appointed John half acres and 800 British pounds for