The building was used by St. Johns Roman Catholic Church for several years and later as a Boys Club. This populated place also has portions in an adjacent township or townships, "Search for Public School Districts District Detail for Lower Merion SD", "Belmont Hills Elementary Schools: About Belmont Hills: History", "School used student laptop webcams to spy on them at school and home", "School district accused of spying on kids via laptop webcams", Community Site with information on LMSD budget issues, LMSD Science and Technology Education Department, LMSD Technology Education recent news site, French International School of Philadelphia, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lower_Merion_School_District&oldid=1082906203, Educational institutions established in 1836, School districts in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles with dead external links from January 2018, Articles with permanently dead external links, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Belmont Hills Elementary School (originally the Ashland Avenue School), Merion Elementary School, the site of the April 4, 1991, plane crash that killed Republican U.S. Wood. The motto over the front door facing Montgomery Ave. read Enter to Learn/Go Forth to Serve.. LOWER MERION TWP., PA Several elementary schools in the Lower Merion School District have been ranked among the best in Pennsylvania, according to a brand-new ranking released Tuesday by U.S. News & World Report. In 1911-12, four staff members taught grades 1-8 with principal K. Adessa Martin. It contained shops such as auto repair, metal, print, wood-working, drafting, etc. In September 1916, 61 students were enrolled. It had a banked, indoor, cork, running-track around the gymnasium which, due to folding doors, could be viewed from the 1,200 seat auditorium. Lower Merion Township Public Schools Directory, 1911-12. School District Booklet. The first Bryn Mawr School (Primary School) was on the north side at 913-929 W. Lancaster Ave. between Merion and Warner Aves., opposite Prospect Ave. On this site in 1851 on Leverings map was a Union S.Ho. No known image exists. The third Bryn Mawr School (Grammar School) is a brick building at 101 Bryn Mawr Ave. on the southeastern corner of Bryn Mawr Ave. and Old Lancaster Rd., Bryn Mawr. It was demolished c. 1965. There is also an underground parking garage for some staff, the first such garage in the district. [14][15] However, no individuals were found guilty of spying. Minshall, Edward H. (interview). Because the school board minutes burned in a fire in 1900, there are no official records of the school. (School Board minutes October 13, 1915. The school board was to determine the number of scholars attending these schools. The locations of most of these schools are unknown. In 1939-40 Elsie R. Cliver was principal with a teaching staff of six for grades K-6. Various classes since have included botany, bicycle repair, a gifted students program, art, and Communique, a program from 1998-2000 in which a seventh grade class of approximately 40 students was taught by two teachers. Additions/renovations were made in 1971, Ewing, Cole, Erdman & Eubank were the architects. in the Lower Merion Historical Society library. : William J. Clark. Lower Merion Academy: A Legend in Learning. The Sunday School building is used by the Penn Valley Womens Club in 2000. Bean, Theodore W. Our volunteers continue to work remotely. Scott, J.D. Before that, schools existed in Lower Merion such as Fairview, the Little Bethel School, the Lower Merion Benevolent School (The Academy), those operated by the Merion Friends Meeting, Merion Square Academy, Sibleys, St. Pauls Lutheran Church, and two Union schools (one was probably held in the Union School House building on Lancaster Ave. in Bryn Mawr. The carpenter for the school was John Rupley, the low bidder, at $1,150. The earliest school on this site was called Wynne Wood and was the first school built by the Lower Merion School District in the summer of 1836 on a half acre bought from Mary Jones for $60. For information: Ted Goldsborough, 101 Bentley Ave., Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004-2805, phone: 610-667-0629, e-mail: goldsborought@gmail.com, The Lower Merion Historical Society holds an outstanding local and regional history collection at the beautifully restored 1812 Lower Merion Academy, the oldest school building in Montgomery County. It is possible that Sibley or Blockley Schools may have been part of Beans list. When the school district stopped using this building is not known. Major renovations/additions were made in 1920 and 1938. Lower Merion class of 1946, Penn Wynne School historian. In 1939-40 George W. R. Kirkpatrict was principal with a teaching staff of thirty-four for grades 7-9. This served as an elementary school until 1963, when it was closed, due in part to racial imbalance. Blockley, 3.
The school burned in 1900. but was rebuilt, also of stone. Joseph Levering drew the plans and specifications. The Lower Merion School District consolidated some schools in November, 1835, after a meeting of men at the General Wayne Inn on April 1, 1834. (Wilbur), The Lower Merion School District was the first in Montgomery County to apply for establishing common schools under legislation passed in Harrisburg. Fairview, 7.
Scott Company as being along Mill Creek in what appears to be Jones cotton and woolen mill building which, after 1890, was owned by Edward S. Murray of Merion Roller Flour Mill. In October, 1835, Thomas Stanley was hired by the Lower Merion School District to teach for one year for $100. 1912-13 President: E. Newton Wigfall; V.P. Fairview Rd., Penn Valley. From 1971-1978, the school districts of Lower Merion, Radnor, and Philadelphia joined together to form The Alternative School-West. In 2000, the site contains a township-owned gym and meeting center. Schools are ranked at the state and district levels. The A School was an experimental high school. Lower Merion class of 1928, retired Lower Merion School District teacher. The Lower Merion School Board minutes of 10/31/1835 mention paying for coal delivered to these schools: Jones School House, Merion Square, Sibleys, Union, and Fairview. in Bala Cynwyd and was built of stone c. late 1800s. Kuljian and Co., while the general contractor was S. Levy Co. The best charter schools and best magnet schools ranked as stand-alone categories. It was built of Holmsburg granite and Indiana limestone in 1921-23 by Italian stonemasons, and opened in February, 1924. The second Bala School is a composition stucco-type building material. 1896. Theodora Wilbur wrote that there was a Union Chapel public school on Bryn Mawr Ave. in Cynwyd. Since about 1994, some of the districts over 100 school buses have been parked and refueled at Harriton. It was built in 1951 with one long building on one story with several wings. He was paid $80 for the winter teaching months. In 2003 it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. The school bell, now located at Gladwyne Elementary School, has a casting date of 1886. It was closed in 1978 due to declining enrollment, and sold to Torah Academy. Major renovations occurred in 1999-2000, when an adjoining wing was added along Drayton Lane. It was a two-story stone building erected in 1883 and rebuilt in 1892. In October 1835, the Lower Merion School Board appointed John Phillips as a teacher at $150 for the school term. 1. Math and reading performance or how well they perform compared with expectations. Seeking housing: Apartment or cottage rental, or long-term house-sitting, Respect For Marriage Act: How PA Republican House Members Voted, 'The SpongeBob Musical' Coming To Delaware County Theater Stage, Center City And Camden Among Possibilities For New Sixers Arena, Blood Drives Coming To Bryn Mawr Thursday, Friday. The school closed in June, 1915, when 16 staff members taught grades 1-8 with Sophie Kefer as principal. It burned in 1900, and school board minutes from 1856-1892 may have been lost in the fire. Merion Square, and 8. 1. In September 1915, 35 students were enrolled. Ardmore Ave., 3. 2. The Lower Merion Academy, 2. Presently, it is the site of a Lower Merion Township pumping station. The school was adjacent to a township playground. The first teacher hired by the school district was G. S. Williams, for $500/year and rent-free residence, for 140 days of instruction. The architect for the 1999 changes was Einhorn, Yaffee, Prescott.
Bala, 5. See Lower Merion Academy/Lower Merion Benevolent School, See Lower Merion School District Administration Building. Major renovations occurred in 2003-2004. Schools in Wynnewood, Merion Station, Bala Cynwyd, and Narbeth made the list. The architects were Savery, Scheetz, and Savery, while James H. Wells was the general contractor. The Lower Merion Academy is at 506 Bryn Mawr Ave., Bala Cynwyd. In March 1836 John Kinzie was appointed to teach at Fairview for $150. This school was built c. 1830, before the formation of the Lower Merion School District. Adjoining land was bought in 1937. former Alternative-West student. A spiral, toboggan fire-escape (shown in the photo below) was added in 1916, much to the delight of the male students who thought of it as a giant sliding board. Pleasant was William Colflesh in October 1835. [13] The webcam picture-snapping function was part of an anti-theft mechanism to help locate laptops that were reported by students as stolen. In February 2010, a class action lawsuit was filed against the school district, alleging that Harriton High School had been secretly using remotely activated webcams built into laptops issued to their students to spy on the students in their homes, thereby infringing on their privacy rights. Lower Merion Township Junior High School (called Ardmore Junior High School after 1939) was located at 315 East Montgomery Ave. between School House Lane and Owen Rd., Ardmore. Located at 101 West Levering Mill Road inBala Cynwyd, PA 19004, Cynwyd Elementary serves families residing in parts of Bala Cynwyd and the Merion Park area of Merion Station. Circa 1890 a new stone public school building was built adjacent to the Sunday School building. The general contractor was Wark and Company. It closed in 1978 due to declining enrollment, and was sold to Founders Bank, which occupied it in 2000. Gladwyne SchoolNationally, California has 5,534 ranked elementary schools the most of any state followed by Texas at 4,446; New York at 2,211; Florida at 2,128; and Illinois at 2,038 schools. Potts, Civil Engineers. It was the first district school to have a female principal, Miss Harriett Urian. The builder was Franklin M. Harris and Company. It provided smaller classes, more flexibility/choice and informality, some non-traditional classes, and the students and teachers governed together. Merion Square (Gladwyne), 8. Schmidt, Charles C. History of the Fairview Union Sunday School May 18, 1924. In September 1916, its last year as a school, 36 students were enrolled. : Dr. William C. Powell; Sec. This school closed in June, 1919. In the fall of 1915, because the new Bryn Mawr School, called a grammar school, which opened on Bryn Mawr Ave. at Old Lancaster Rd., could not house all students, the old school on Lancaster Ave., called a primary school in the 1921-1922 Schools Directory, housed the small children. The Lower Merion School District has six public elementary schools that serve the families residing in Lower Merion Township and Narberth. It is a tapestry brick elementary school built in 1926-7 by Ralph E. White, architect and engineer George H. Evans, Inc., builder. 1877. In 1939-40 Ralph F. Davenport was principal with a teaching staff of nineteen for grades K-6. It is constructed of stone and brick. The datestone for this building is on the grounds of the Gladwyne Elementary School. Currently the site is used for housing for the elderly. 
