Editing Ardmore, Pennsylvania (section)

== Education ==
Pupils living in the Lower Merion Township portion attend schools in the [[Lower Merion School District]]<!--UNI 14160--> (LMSD),<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st42_pa/schooldistrict_maps/c42091_montgomery/DC20SD_C42091.pdf |title=2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Montgomery County, PA |publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]] |access-date=August 9, 2024}} - [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st42_pa/schooldistrict_maps/c42091_montgomery/DC20SD_C42091_SD2MS.txt Text list]</ref> while pupils living in the Haverford Township portion attend schools in the [[School District of Haverford Township]].<!--UNI 11670--><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st42_pa/schooldistrict_maps/c42045_delaware/DC20SD_C42045.pdf |title=2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Delaware County, PA |publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]] |access-date=August 9, 2024}} - [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st42_pa/schooldistrict_maps/c42045_delaware/DC20SD_C42045_SD2MS.txt Text list]</ref>

{{As of|2024}}, in regards to the Lower Merion Township section, school zoning is as follows:<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/DC20BLK/st42_pa/place/p4202896_ardmore/DC20BLK_P4202896.pdf|title=2020 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP: Ardmore CDP, PA|publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]]|access-date=2024-12-11}}</ref> Most of it is zoned to Penn Valley Elementary School, while portions are zoned to Penn Wynne and Gladwyne<!--Very small portion--> elementaries.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lmsd.org/fs/resource-manager/view/11e0ec80-9ee7-4927-b55c-0bc041b3bcb1|title=Elementary School Boundaries|publisher=[[Lower Merion School District]]|access-date=2024-12-11}} - Compare to the CDP map.</ref> For middle school, most of the section is zoned to Welsh Valley Middle School, while some of it is zoned to Black Rock Middle School.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lmsd.org/fs/resource-manager/view/2a4ee877-b6a3-45d5-b981-c005a07c0727|title=Middle School Boundaries|publisher=[[Lower Merion School District]]|access-date=2024-12-11}} - Compare to the CDP map.</ref> For high school, there are portions in the [[Lower Merion High School]] walking zone, some in the [[Harriton High School]] area, and some in a choice area where students may choose between Harriton and Lower Merion high schools.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lmsd.org/fs/resource-manager/view/9a84f4e6-e212-40ac-9a93-058c395869f3|title=High School Boundaries|publisher=[[Lower Merion School District]]|access-date=2024-12-11}} - Compare to the CDP map.</ref>

Among the many notable graduates of [[Lower Merion High School]] in Ardmore are General [[Henry H. Arnold|Henry H. "Hap" Arnold]] (1903), Commanding General of the [[U.S. Army Air Forces]] in WWII; General [[Alexander Haig|Alexander M. Haig Jr.]] (1942), the 59th [[United States Secretary of State]]; [[James H. Billington]] (1946), the [[Library of Congress|Librarian of Congress]], and; [[Kobe Bryant]] (1996), [[National Basketball Association|NBA]] Hall of Fame basketball player.

Ardmore Avenue Elementary School, of the LMSD district and in the African-American section of Ardmore, had 80% of its students as African-Americans.<ref>{{cite news|title=Lower Merion OKs Move to End De Facto Segregation|newspaper=[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]|date=1963-07-07|page=[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/160819376/ A5]|via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> The district closed the school in 1963 during the [[Civil Rights Movement]]. An LMSD website stated that the school had a building that was in a poor condition and that the dissolution of the school was "marking the beginning of the true desegregation at the primary level".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lmsd.org/moment-of-integration|title=Moment of Integration|publisher=Lower Merion School District|access-date=2024-12-13}}</ref> By 1996, South Ardmore residents were divided between three elementary schools, but that year there was a plan to rezone so two elementary schools instead of three had portions of the community.<ref name=Barnardredistfears>{{cite news|last=Barnard|first=Anne|title=Redistricting fears spread in L. Merion|newspaper=[[Philadelphia Inquirer]]|date=1997-02-26|pages=[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/160818586/ B1], [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/160818610/ B4]|via=[[Newspapers.com]]}} - Cited: B1.</ref>