Public education Most of Wynnewood's public school children attend the Merion, Penn Wynne, or Penn Valley elementary schools, part of
Lower Merion School District headquartered in
Ardmore; Bala Cynwyd Middle School; and have a choice between
Lower Merion High School and
Harriton High School. Other schools, private and parochial, include all-boys
The Haverford School, all-girls
Baldwin, and
Agnes Irwin schools, coeducational Friends Central School — are within the Wynnewood postal district — and private, Catholic, Country Day School of the Sacred Heart in nearby Bryn Mawr, Waldron Mercy and Merion Mercy academies in nearby Merion. Saint Margaret's Elementary School in nearby Narberth also serves Wynnewood's Catholic elementary school community. There are other private schools such as
Episcopal Academy (
Newtown Square), as well as
Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy (Bryn Mawr) and the Solomon Schechter School (Wynnewood), which are both Jewish-affiliated schools. Finally, there is a French International School which has two locations—the lower school near the Bala Cynwyd Library and the upper school on City Avenue, still in Bala Cynwyd.
Saint Joseph's University is close by with parts of its campus in Merion, Bala Cynwyd and West Philadelphia;
Villanova University, straddling Lancaster Avenue, and
Rosemont College, on Montgomery, are also nearby, as are
Cabrini College and
Eastern University, both in nearby Saint David's.
Haverford College is a non-denominational college on Montgomery Avenue in Haverford.
St. Charles Borromeo Seminary is across the street from parts of Saint Joseph's University's campus. The Japanese Language School of Philadelphia (JLSP, フィラデルフィア日本語補習授業校
Firaderufia Nihongo Hoshū Jugyō Kō), a
supplementary Japanese school, holds its classes at the
Friends Central School (FCS) in Wynnewood and in
Lower Merion Township. ==Media ==