Bywood Elementary


 * Address: 220 Avon Road, Upper Darby, PA 19082
 * Principal: Edward Marshalack
 * School Colors: Green and Gold

Bywood Elementary School is an elementary school like no other and a proud past recipient of the prestigious "National School of Excellence" award! Bywood, a neighborhood school, is located in Upper Darby near the 69th Street shopping district. Our motto, "A World of Understanding," exemplifies this special and unique elementary school. Bywood serves a population of approximately 850 students that is noted for its diversity. Ethnic backgrounds include native born and thirty-six other nationalities. Students at Bywood come from homes in which forty-five languages and dialects are spoken. Mutual respect and appreciation are the keystones of Bywood's success in dealing with this diversity. Bywood staff and students utilize a "Responsive Classroom" approach to both the social and the academic curriculum. In 1994, Bywood was selected as one of the best elementary schools in the country and was named a "Blue Ribbon School."

Our active Home and School Association supports Bywood through library and reading programs, curriculum related assembly programs, fund raising events, family fun nights, and many more supportive events. Bywood creates a climate that fosters literacy through a wide range of reading, writing, speaking, and listening experiences for information and for pleasure. Our goal is to instill in our students the habits of mind that characterize a self-reliant thinker, reader, and learner. Additionally, we strive to develop positive self-concepts, foster respect for individual differences, and nurture a supportive school climate. Bywood is a school community in which the administration, faculty, and parents collaborate to create a safe learning environment with high expectations for the intellectual, physical, emotional, and social development of its students. Within the curriculum, there is an emphasis on language arts, mathematics, science, social studies, and technology, as well as an appreciation of the fine arts. Academic and supporting programs include: art, music, and physical education instruction. We also offer acceleration, enrichment, and tutorial programs, along with educational field trips to supplement classroom learning. In addition, Bywood hosts before and after school programs, band and orchestra, chorus, parent involvement programs, as well as community service programs.

Come visit our unique school. You, too, will be impressed with our caring faculty, talented students, and the special "world" created to help children grow.

Bywood Elementary.. A World Of Understanding