East Lansdowne is a borough in Delaware County Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 2,714 at the 2020 census.
Geography
East Lansdowne is located at (39.944162, -75.260253).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of , all land.
- East Lansdowne Basics Magnet Elementary School (K-6)
- In 1972 the school's library was open to the public, one of the few school libraries to do so, as East Lansdowne had no other public library. That year, it had an area for sports called the "dust bowl". That year John Hilferty of the Philadelphia Inquirer described it as "even more minuscule" compared to the East Lansdowne borough, which he called "Lilliputian" due to its size. was moved to and combined with St. Philomena in nearby Lansdowne, PA in 2021 after a protracted battle to keep the school open.
In December, 2005 the archdiocese proposed closing it, but it remained open after community members, inspired by a child with cystic fibrosis who asked for the Make a Wish foundation to save his school, donated $200,000 to keep it open. This was dubbed the "Miracle at St. Cyril." In 2012 the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia proposed closing it again, intending to merge it into St. Andrew School of Upper Darby. However the archdiocese reversed that decision. Instead it became the Independence Mission Schools, not operated by the archdiocese.
Vision Academy Charter School purchased the St. Cyril of Alexandria buildings from the Archdiocese of Philadelphia and opened during the 2021–22 school year. In 2013, St. Cyril of Alexandria merged into St. Philomena Church in Lansdowne, with the St. Cyril parish closed.