Lower Merion High School, is a public high school in Ardmore, a community on the Pennsylvania Main Line.
It is one of two nearly equally-sized high schools in Lower Merion School District; the other is Harriton High School. Lower Merion serves both Lower Merion Township and the Borough of Narberth. It was ranked among the top 60 U.S. high schools, public or private, by The Wall Street Journal in 2005. In 2010, 1,378 students attended the school. The athletics teams are known officially as the "Aces," but the football team is called the "Bulldogs".
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