Harriton High School is a public secondary school located in Rosemont, a community in Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania, which is located within the Pennsylvania Main Line region.
Harriton is one of two high schools in Lower Merion School District; the other is Lower Merion High School. It used to be a comparatively small high school, containing 889 students in 9th through 12th grades. Following the latest redistricting policy both schools are now more even and now Harriton has nearly 1,088 students. At the school, the student teacher ratio is 10.6:1.
Harriton also offers the IB, or International Baccalaureate, program.
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