page_title: Lower Merion School District
section_title: Schools administered
hierarchical_section_title: Lower Merion School District / Schools administered
caption_attribution_description: Merion Elementary School, of Lower Merion School District, Lower Merion, Pennsylvania.
context_page_description: Lower Merion School District, or LMSD, is a public school district located in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. The school district includes residents of both Lower Merion Township and the Borough of Narberth. Established in 1836, LMSD is one of the oldest districts in Pennsylvania. It is the wealthiest school district in the state, and one of the wealthiest school districts in the country.
context_section_description: Eleven schools comprise the district:
  Lower Merion High School
  Harriton High School
  Bala Cynwyd Middle School
  Welsh Valley Middle School
  Belmont Hills Elementary School (originally the Ashland Avenue School)
  Cynwyd Elementary School
  Gladwyne Elementary School
  The Loepke School for Endangered Students
  Merion Elementary School, the site of the April 4, 1991, plane crash that killed Republican U.S. Senator John Heinz. The plane crash also took the lives of six others, including two first grade students playing at recess.
  Penn Wynne Elementary School, the elementary school that Alex Scott attended.
  Penn Valley Elementary School
caption: Merion Elementary School
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