Upper Moreland High School is a comprehensive public high school, serving grades 9–12, located in

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, about fifteen miles outside of

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. It is the only high school in the Upper Moreland School District, which includes parts of the

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, Hatboro, and Willow Grove ZIP codes in Upper Moreland Township. Its primary feeder school is Upper Moreland Middle School, and routinely sends graduates to colleges and universities in the United States and worldwide.

Location/Geography

Upper Moreland High School, abbreviated UMHS, serves grades 9–12. Its current building, which was erected in 1958, sits at 3000 Terwood Road in Willow Grove, directly adjacent to the

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(but is not served by a station), and its campus includes the school district's administration building and bus garage. Construction was completed on a three-level science wing in 2009, and air conditioning has been installed, as the school sits diagonally across the street from the Upper Moreland-Hatboro Joint Sewer Authority treatment plant on Terwood Road. It also sits directly across Terwood Rd. from Eastern Center for Arts and Technology, formerly known as Eastern Montco Vo-Tech School.

Notable alumni

* Paul Bateman, mathematician *

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, First Lady of the United States *

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, Pennsylvania state senator * Scott Hilton, NFL player *

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References

Educational institutions in the United States with year of establishment missing Public high schools in Pennsylvania Schools in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania 1958 establishments in Pennsylvania {{Pennsylvania-school-stub