Nether Providence High School was a four-year public

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, United States, serving

Nether Providence Township Nether Providence Township is a township in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. Many residents refer to the township by the name of its largest community, Wallingford, because the Wallingford postal code is used for most of the towns ...

and the

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of Rose Valley and Moylan. The school merged with

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in 1983 to form

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, based at the second Nether Providence campus. Nether Providence High School was a part of the

Wallingford-Swarthmore School District Wallingford-Swarthmore School District is a midsized, suburban public school district in south-eastern Delaware County, Pennsylvania in the United States. It serves the boroughs of Swarthmore, Rose Valley and Rutledge, and the township of ...

. Nether Providence High School was founded as a small, rural high school in 1924. However, population grew throughout the 1950s and 1960s, leading to additions in 1952 and 1963. The building was shared with Nether Providence Junior High School. In 1970, a new building was built right across the street. That building is currently home to the

. After the 1983 SHS-NPHS merger, forming SHHS, the stone building became home to the Nether Providence Junior High School. In 1991, the building became home to the Strath Haven Middle School, housing 6th-8th grade students in the township, Rose Valley, Rutledge and Swarthmore. The 1970 building was renovated and expanded during the 1999-2000 school year, and from 2007-2010, the stone building underwent a series of renovations and additions. For the 2010-11 school year, the 1924 and 1963 buildings were demolished, the 1952 building was fully renovated, and a new addition was added housing classrooms.

Notable alumni

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, Oregon politician and businessman *

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(née Jacobson), singer, author, restaurateur and widow to singer Jim Croce * J. Gordon Holt, writer and publisher *

Marsha Ivins Marsha Sue Ivins (born April 15, 1951) is an American retired astronaut and a veteran of five Space Shuttle missions. Career Ivins, born April 15, 1951, in Baltimore, Maryland, graduated from Nether Providence High School in Wallingford, Pennsy ...

, astronaut and engineer * Bill Purcell, politician and former major of Nashville TN

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* {{authority control Public high schools in Pennsylvania Educational institutions established in 1924 Defunct schools in Pennsylvania Schools in Delaware County, Pennsylvania 1924 establishments in Pennsylvania Educational institutions disestablished in 1983 1983 disestablishments in Pennsylvania