The Society has several important collections related to the schools along the Old York Road Corridor.  Most important are the following:

Chelten Hills Select School (Heacock School) – early and one of the most important private educational institutions in the area, 1880-1902

Glenside-Weldon Elementary and Junior High Schools – materials cover history of the schools from 1937 to 2001 when the building was closed

B. R. Myers Elementary School, Elkins Park – elementary school in Cheltenham Township, 1930-1990

Ogontz School – elite private finishing school began in 1872 as the Chestnut Street Female Seminary, relocated to Cheltenham Township in 1883, moved to Abington Township in 1917, and closed in 1950

Overlook Elementary School – elementary school in Abington Township, 1985-2006

Roslyn Elementary School – elementary school in Abington Township, 1960-1980

The Society also has various issues of school newspapers for a number of the institutions in the area.  Larger runs include the following:

The Abingtonian, 1928-1932

The Cheltonian, 1930-1940

Jenkintown School News, 1970-1983

Additionally, the Society has a collection of school yearbooks.  Included in the collection are the following:

Abington High School (Oracle) 1919, 1923, 1924, 1926-1943, 1945-1947, 1950-2001

Abington Junior High School 1994-1997, 1999

Abington Memorial Hospital School of Nursing (Sonah) 1938-1940

Academy of the New Church 1930, 1944, 1991

Beechwood School (Beechbark) 1916, 1919, 1920, 1924, 1925

Beaver College (Beechbark) 1926-1931, 1933-1935, (Log) 1936-1939, 1941-1956, 1958-1960, 1965-1967, 1970, 1973, 1974

Bishop McDevitt High School (Realm) 1961, 1964, 1970, 1973, 1976, 1978-1985, 1987-1990, 1992, 1996

Cedarbrook Junior High School (Wildcat) 1971-1976, 1979, 1980, 1999

Cheltenham High School (El Delator) 1911, 1927-1931, 1933-1937, 1939, 1941-1947, 1950, 1954-1956, 1958, 1960-1971, 1973-1984, 1986-1988, 2009

Elkins Park School (The Elkins Parker) 1956-1972

Hatboro High School (The Hat) 1926, (Hi-Hatter) 1948

Hatboro-Horsham High School (Hi-Hatter) 1957, 1958, 1962-1964, 1967

Jenkintown High School (Red and Blue) 1921, 1926-1930, 1932, 1933, (Senior Annual) 1936, 1939, (Red and Blue) 1941, 1943, (Jenkintonian) 1944, (The Retrospect) 1945, (Senior Annual) 1947, 1948, 1950, (Jenkintonian) 1951-1953, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1970-2009

Lower Moreland High School (Elmleo) 1937-1939, 1941, 1943, 1945-1954, 1956-1958, 1961-1968, 1971, 1991

Meadowbrook School 1969, 1973-1978, 1992, 1995

Melrose Academy (The Rose) 1956-1959

Notre Dame Catholic Girls High School (La Tour) 1950-1953

Ogontz School 1898, 1901, 1915, 1916, 1926, 1928, 1938, 1942, 1946-1949

Saint Basil’s Academy (Basiliannette) 1957, 1982, 1987

Upper Moreland High School (The Record) 1929, (The Epitome) 1930-1934, (Memoria) 1946, 1951, 1954, 1962, 1974, 1988-1990, 1997

Upper Moreland Junior High School (Bearfacts) 1972-1974

Upper Southampton-Warminster High School (Per Annos) 1949-1951