Editing Collegeville, Pennsylvania (section)

==Education==
===Primary and secondary education===
====Public====
The borough of Collegeville is served by the [[Perkiomen Valley School District]].<ref>"[http://www.pvsd.org/about About]." [[Perkiomen Valley School District]]. Retrieved on October 9, 2018.</ref> Some nearby areas outside of the borough limits are served by [[Methacton School District]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.methacton.org/domain/35|title=Welcome to the Methacton School District website!|publisher=[[Methacton School District]]|access-date=April 22, 2020|quote=The District,[...] was created by a 10-year merging of the school districts that had previously served the townships of Lower Providence and Worcester. }}</ref> and [[Spring-Ford Area School District]].<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.spring-ford.net/about-spring-ford/sfasd-map |title=About Spring-Ford|publisher=[[Spring-Ford School District]]|access-date=February 9, 2021}}</ref>

====Private====
There is also one private parochial school, Holy Cross Regional Catholic School, which serves grades K-8. Holy Cross was formed in 2012 by the merger of St. Eleanor in Collegeville and Sacred Heart in [[Royersford, Pennsylvania|Royersford]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://catholicphilly.com/2012/07/uncategorized/school-closing-list/|title=2012 Catholic grade school consolidations/closings|work=Catholicphilly.com|date=July 15, 2012|access-date=April 22, 2020}}</ref> [[Pope John Paul II High School (Pennsylvania)|Pope John Paul II High School]] in Royersford is the area Catholic high school.<ref name=Education>"[https://www.collegeville-pa.gov/content/education Education] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181009135126/https://www.collegeville-pa.gov/content/education |date=2018-10-09 }}." Borough of Collegeville. Retrieved on October 9, 2018.</ref> Both are administered by the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia|Archdiocese of Philadelphia]].

===Post-secondary education===
The borough is also home to [[Ursinus College]], established in 1869. [[Montgomery County Community College]], with campuses in [[Blue Bell, Pennsylvania|Blue Bell]] and [[Pottstown, Pennsylvania|Pottstown]], provides community college services to Collegeville residents.<ref name=Education/>

===Library system and community education===
The Montgomery County Library & Information Network Consortium (MCLINC) operates area bookmobiles, and physical libraries serving the Collegeville area including the Perkiomen Valley Library at [[Schwenksville, Pennsylvania|Schwenksville]], the Lower Providence Community Library in [[Eagleville, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania|Eagleville]], the [[Royersford, Pennsylvania|Royersford]] Free Public Library, the [[Norristown, Pennsylvania|Norristown]] public library, and the [[Phoenixville, Pennsylvania|Phoenixville]] Public Library of the [[Chester County Library System]].<ref>"[https://www.collegeville-pa.gov/content/libraries Libraries]." Borough of Collegeville. Retrieved on October 9, 2018.</ref>

===Defunct institutions===
Several other now-defunct primary, secondary, and post-secondary educational institutions were also located in Collegeville, all of which predate the founding of Ursinus College and the incorporation of Collegeville as a borough. 

Todd’s School was founded in 1832 as the area’s primary and secondary school. It was known Freeland Public School from 1844 to 1874. The Freeland Seminary of Perkiomen Bridge, a post-secondary institution, was established in 1848. It and its land were purchased and turned into Ursinus College in 1869. Ursinus College also later came into possession of the building that was once Freeland Public School; that building is now known as Isenberg Hall, a residence hall located in the southwest corner of Ursinus's main campus.<ref name=historictrappe>{{cite web |url=https://www.historictrappe.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/web-brochure.pdf |title=Historic Trappe & Collegeville Main Street Walking Tour |date=May 2015 |access-date=2024-05-22}}</ref><ref name=krahn>{{cite web  |title=Freeland Seminary (Collegeville, Pennsylvania, USA) |last=Krahn |first=Cornelius |publisher=Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online |date=1956 |access-date=23 May 2024 |url=https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Freeland_Seminary_(Collegeville,_Pennsylvania,_USA)}}</ref>

Pennsylvania Female College, a post-secondary educational institution, was established in 1851 and closed in 1880.