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1. Spring-Ford Area School District –The Spring-Ford Area School District is a K-12 school district based in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States, and expands into Chester County, Pennsylvania. The Spring- Ford Area School District came into being when Royersford School District and Spring City School District merged in 1955 (1955-56 school year). The district’s name is taken from the “Spring” in Spring City and the “Ford” from Royersford.

Visit the Official Website here.

Elementary schools (K-4)

  • Brooke Elementary School- Limerick Twp
  • Evans Elementary School- Limerick Twp
  • Limerick Elementary School- Limerick Twp.
  • Royersford Elementary School- Royersford Borough
  • Spring City Elementary Hybrid Learning School- Spring City Borough
  • Oaks Elementary School – Upper Providence Twp.
  • Upper Providence Elementary School- Upper Providence Twp.

Intermediate

  • 5th/6th Grade Center

Middle Schools

  • 7th Grade Center
  • 8th Grade Center

High schools

  • 9th Grade Center
  • 10th/11th/12th Grade Center

2. Township Information – View township information by clicking on the link below

3. About Spring City – Spring City is a borough in Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 3,323 at the 2010 census. Spring City is a member of the Spring-Ford Area School District.

It is situated along the Schuylkill River, which divides Chester and Montgomery counties. Directly across the river is the borough of Royersford.

4. About Royersford – The town drew its name from the location of a ford across the Schuylkill River, which happened to be adjacent to land owned by the Royer family. Early in the twentieth century, it had several stove factories, two glass and bottle works, hosiery and silk mills, a dye and bleaching plant, manufactories of bricks, gas meters, stockings, shirts, shafting parts, wagons, agricultural implements, etc. The population stood at 2,607 people in 1900, and at 3,073 in 1910. The population was 4,752 at the 2010 census. The borough was formed from the southeastern corner of Limerick Township in 1879. Royersford Borough is a member of the Spring-Ford Area School District.

The Continental Stove Works was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

Parts of the classic 1958 horror film The Blob, starring Steve McQueen, were filmed in Royersford.The film The Lovely Bones, starring Mark Wahlberg, directed by Peter Jackson, was filmed in the borough in late November 2007. The Bloodhound Gang’s most famous album, Hooray for Boobies was recorded at Dome Studios on Main Street.A scene in M. Night Shyamalan’s 2015 film The Visit was filmed at the intersection of Washington Street and South 7th Avenue. A local middle school, the Spring-Ford Eighth Grade Center, was used as the backdrop

5. About Chester County
Chester County is a county located in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. As of the 2010 census, the population was 498,886, with an estimated population of 500,182 in 2011. The county seat is West Chester. It is the highest-income county in Pennsylvania and 24th highest in the nation as measured by median household income (as of 2010). Eastern Chester County is home to many communities that comprise the Main Line western suburbs of Philadelphia, while part of its southernmost portion is considered suburban Wilmington, Delaware, along with southwest Delaware County.Source: Wikipedia

Chester County was one of the three original Pennsylvania counties created by William Penn in 1682. It was named for Chester, England. It is part of the Delaware Valley region and is the only county in Philadelphia’s Pennsylvania suburbs that does not border Philadelphia.