Villanova is a community along the Main Line that straddles Lower Merion Township of Montgomery County and Radnor Township of Delaware County. It is located at the center of the Main Line near Bryn Mawr.

The most notable feature of Villanova is Villanova University, from which the community gains its name. The university campus extends from County Line Road along Spring Mill Road south to Lancaster Pike, US Route 30, and then east to just beyond Wildcat Stadium, home of the Villanova University football team. In addition to the undergraduate college Villanova University includes a well-recognized graduate school, a nursing school, a school of continuing studies, numerous certificate programs, and Villanova University Law School. [1]

Public school children in Villanova attend Gladwyne Elementary School in Gladwyne, Pennsylvania, Welsh Valley Middle School in Penn Valley, Pennsylvania, and Harriton High School in Rosemont, Pennsylvania, all part of the Lower Merion School District. [2]

Villanova is also home to the Agnes Irwin School for Girls on South Ithan Avenue south of US 30.

Other schools in the area include all-boys Haverford School, all-boys Episcopal Academy in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, all-girls Baldwin School and the Country Day School of the Sacred Heart in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, and the coeducational Shipley School in Bryn Mawr. Rosemont School of the Holy Child on Montgomery Avenue is a nearby Catholic elementary school. [3]