Main Line Guide to Private Schools
Your Guide to Local Private Schools
By Macaroni Kid Havertown-Main Line
May 1, 2023
Choosing your child's school is one of the most important decisions parents will make. Let Macaroni Kid Havertown-Main Line help! Check out our guide to local private schools to narrow down your search to Berwyn, Devon, Wayne, Radnor, Villanova, Rosemont, Bryn Mawr, Ardmore, Narberth, Havertown, Wynnewood and in between! From montessori, college prep, and faith-based schools, to schools with smaller class sizes and individualized learning approaches, we've gathered a comprehensive list of private schools sure to fit your kiddos' needs. Best of all - most private schools offer private tours and appointments to check out their campuses - take a look today and tell 'em Macaroni Kid sent ya!
Hill Top Preparatory School
Life-changing experiences for bright and creative students.
Hill Top Preparatory School provides life-changing experiences for bright and creative students who struggle to achieve academic and social success due to performance-based learning differences including ADHD, Autism, specific learning disabilities, or anxiety. Through strong family-school collaboration Hill Top prepares students for future success in college, work, and life as independent adults.
Ages: co-ed day school for grades 5-12;
Horizons Post-Grad Program; Boys Boarding Program
Hill Top Preparatory School
737 S. Ithan Ave., Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
Phone: 610.527.3230
Friends' Central School
Friends’ Central School is a coeducational, college-preparatory Quaker school offering an outstanding independent school education to students in Nursery through grade 12. Located on 41 acres across two campuses in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, Friends’ Central cultivates the intellectual, spiritual, and ethical promise of students.
Ages: nursery to 12th grade
before & after care available
Friends' School Haverford
Friends School Haverford is a Nursery - 5th grade Quaker school with a place-based approach. FSH offers Spanish, Science, Art, Music, PE, a Toddler and Parent/Caregiver program, and plenty of time outdoors on our 7 acre campus.
Ages: Nursery program accepting children as young as 2 1/2 - 5th grade
Half and full-day options available; before & after care available
Sacred Heart Academy Bryn Mawr
Sacred Heart Academy Bryn Mawr (SHA) is an independent, Catholic, K-12, Girls School. We are also a member of the consortium of 150+ Sacred Heart schools in 41 countries which connects our students to an international community, offering distinguished exchange and service programs that further prepare students for an increasingly global world and an appreciation for differences. SHA offers Lower School Multi-Age Classrooms, a robust Middle School Counseling Program, and Upper School Dual-Enrollment with three universities, among other exclusive programs.
SHA fosters a community that acts in the interests of equity and justice, celebrates the experience of each student, and demonstrates compassion for all. We welcome students of all races, religious beliefs, and socio-economic backgrounds.
Ages: Kindergarten through Grade 12
Before & After Care included with tuition
The Agnes Irwin School
Located in the western suburbs of Philadelphia, The Agnes Irwin School encourages girls PreK-12 to experience the joy of discovering their best selves in support of its mission of empowering each girl to learn, to lead, and to live a legacy. Founded in 1869 by Miss Agnes Irwin, the first Dean of Radcliffe College and great-great granddaughter of Benjamin Franklin, the school is committed to developing girls through an innovative, research-based curriculum, and offers a competitive athletic and creative arts program that promotes self-expression.
Ages: Pre-K - 12th grade
Full-day only; before & after care available
The Phebe Anna Thorne School
The Thorne Kindergarten Center at Haverford provides a developmentally appropriate, child-centered program in a small and nurturing setting. It is especially appropriate for parents who wish their children to have a full-day kindergarten experience (8:45 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.) that combines a traditional kindergarten curriculum with many opportunities for active play and social interaction.
Ages: Kindergarten
Schedule: Full-day program (Monday - Friday 8:45 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.)
The Wetherill School
The Wetherill School offers a warm and secure first-school experience that fosters independence and responsibility in each child. A strong, interdependent community feeling characterizes the relationships among the children and staff. Children spend the morning in mixed-aged classrooms where teachers work with small groups as well as individual children. In the afternoon classes, children are divided into four-year-old and kindergarten groups. Three-year-old children leave school at noon.
Ages: Preschool through Kindergarten
Schedule: Morning Preschool (3-year-olds): Mon-Fri or Tues-Thurs 9am - 12pm
Kindergarten Readiness (4-year-olds): Mon-Fri or Tues-Thurs: 9am - 3pm
Kindergarten (5-year-olds): Mon-Fri 9am - 3pm
The Wetherill School
1321 Beaumont Drive Gladwyne, PA 19035
E-mail: info@wetherillschool.org or inquire here
Phone: 610.649.2299
The Academy of Notre Dame de Namur
Since 1856, the Academy has educated, empowered and inspired young women for a lifetime of compassionate leadership and service guided by our Catholic faith and an abiding trust in the goodness of God. Our graduates are leading and contributing to medicine, art, law, science, education and business throughout the world, setting the standard for social responsibility by their lives and actions. They are our inspiration.
The research is clear and compelling -- an all girls’ learning environment offers proven advantages that prepare students for success in college and beyond. When compared to their female peers at co-educational schools, girls’ school graduates: have stronger academic skills, are more academically engaged, demonstrate higher self-confidence in science, express stronger community involvement, display higher levels of cultural competency, and exhibit increased political engagement.
Ages: young women in grades 6 through 12
