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