Merion Station, also known as Merion, is an unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. It borders Philadelphia to its west and is one of the communities that make up the Philadelphia Main Line. Merion Station is part of Lower Merion Township, Montgomery County. The community is known for its grand mansions and for the wealth of its residents. Merion Station is contiguous to the Overbrook and Overbrook Park neighborhoods of Philadelphia and is also bordered by Lower Merion Township’s unincorporated communities of Wynnewood and Bala Cynwyd and the borough of Narberth.
The community north of Montgomery Avenue surrounding General Wayne Park is usually referred to as Merion Park and is in the same zipcode as Merion Station. It was built by developer Ralph Madway decades after the closing of the General Wayne Racetrack that once drew thousands of spectators to Merion for horse races on the green now the Park’s grounds and bounded by Maplewood and Revere Roads.
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RATING* | SCHOOL NAME | GRADES | SCHOOL TYPE |
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5 | Merion Elementary School | Kindergarten - 5th Grade | Public |
5 | Penn Valley Elementary School | Kindergarten - 5th Grade | Public |
5 | Welsh Valley Middle School | 6th Grade - 8th Grade | Public |
N/A | Waldron Mercy Academy | Preschool - 8th Grade | Catholic/Religious |
N/A | St Margaret School | Preschool - 8th Grade | Catholic/Religious |
N/A | Merion Mercy Academy | 9th Grade - 12th Grade | Private/Charter |
N/A | Kohelet Yeshiva High School | 9th Grade - 12th Grade | Private/Charter |
N/A | Adath Israel - Early Childhood Learning Center | Preschool - Kindergarten | Private/Charter |
N/A | Yeshiva Lab School | Private/Charter | |
N/A | Chabad Of The Main Line | Preschool - Preschool | Private/Charter |
N/A | Noreen Cook Center For Ece Of Har Zion Temple | Preschool - Kindergarten | Private/Charter |