Swarthmore High School

Swarthmore High School was a four-year public high school in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania serving the Boroughs of Swarthmore and Rutledge.

Swarthmore High School
Location
Swarthmore
,
PA

United States
Information
TypePublic secondary
Established1893
Closed1983
LocaleWallingford-Swarthmore School District
Grades9-12
Color(s)Garnet, White

History

Swarthmore established its own independent school district when Swarthmore Borough incorporated in 1893.

Families in Springfield Township could choose to send their children to Swarthmore High, Lansdowne High School, and/or Media High School prior to the 1931 establishment of Springfield High School.[1]

The Swarthmore and Rutledge School Districts merged in 1955. In 1971 the Swarthmore-Rutledge District merged with adjacent Nether Providence School District to create the Wallingford-Swarthmore School District.

After Pennsylvania state officials determined that Swarthmore was too small for its own secondary schools, Swarthmore High School merged with Nether Providence High School in Wallingford to form Strath Haven High School in the fall of 1983. The merged school was and still is based at the former Nether Providence campus.

The building that was Swarthmore High School is now the Swarthmore Rutledge School, an elementary school in the Wallingford-Swarthmore School District.

Notable alumni

Further reading
  • The Centennial Yearbook Committee, ed. (1993). The Swarthmore High School Centennial Yearbook. The School Action Committee of Swarthmore, II.

References
  1. Springfield Historical Society (2004-06-23). Springfield Township, Delaware County. Arcadia Publishing. p. PT141. ISBN 9781439629017.
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