Schools and Colleges
Much of Wynnewood's public school children attend the Merion, Penn Wynne or Penn Valley elementary schools, part of Lower Merion School District headquartered in nearby Ardmore, Pennsylvania; Bala Cynwyd Middle School; and have a choice between Lower Merion High School (Ardmore) and Harriton High School (Rosemont); Lower Merion HS moved into new building in the fall of 2010. Other schools, private and parochial, abound in this old and affluent residential district, including all-boys Haverford School, all-girls Baldwin and Agnes Irwin schools, coeducational Friends Central School--actually within the Wynnewood postal district—and private, Catholic Waldron Mercy and Merion Mercy academies in nearby Merion, Pennsylvania. Saint Margaret's Elementary School in nearby Narberth also serves Wynnewood's Catholic elementary school community. There are other private schools such as Episcopal Academy (Merion), as well as Akiba / Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy (previously of Bala Cynwyd, now located in Radnor, Pennsylvania) and the Solomon Schechter School (Wynnewood), which are both Jewish-affiliated schools. Finally, there is a French International School which has two locations—the lower school near the Bala Cynwyd Library and the upper school on City Avenue, still in Bala Cynwyd.
Saint Joseph's University is close by with parts of its campus in Merion, Bala Cynwyd and West Philadelphia, Villanova University, straddling Lancaster Avenue, and Rosemont College, on Montgomery, are also nearby, as are Cabrini College and Eastern University, both in nearby Saint David's. Haverford College is a non-denominational college on Montgomery Ave in Haverford.
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