Welcome to Osborne Elementary School

As the principals of Osborne Elementary and Edgeworth Elementary, we take great pride in curriculum and instruction offered to our district’s youngest learners from kindergarten through fifth grade years. 

Welcoming students, parents, and visitors to our spacious, light filled, and technology-infused classrooms showcases just one small part of our schools. What makes for an exceptional educational experience is the caring, child-centered professional staff.

Success, one child at a time — the effort to meet each child’s needs for growth socially, emotionally and academically— is ongoing. We use student assessment data and curriculum review and revision to develop appropriate classroom and differentiated instruction.  However, it is the small class environment that fosters our teachers’ abilities to “know” their students and their individual strengths, challenges and passions, ensuring each child’s positive school experience and love of learning.

Our parents are most important to our students’ lives and school success, but parents have become essential to our schools’ success.  We are fortunate that both schools have active, strong parent associations to support and enhance our programs and activities, the Edgeworth PTA and the Osborne Home & School Association.

Our parent and community volunteers are invaluable. Their support and initiatives have driven, promoted and fostered the success of programs including Odyssey of the Mind, Generations Together, Spanish Club, Art Club, Lego League, Laps for Love and Writer’s Workshop.  

Both “Edge” and “Os” encourage and foster community service from all students at every age.  Whether kindergarten students are running a “mini” Relay for Life, or fifth grade students are printing notecards to raise money for parents of premature babies, our teachers embrace and infuse community service into the curriculum to develop compassionate and caring students that give of themselves.

Prior to renovation, our buildings were architectural twins and were rebuilt to maintain the advantages of providing identical facilities — both schools remain architectural twins and are designed to foster student growth and learning using today’s best technologies for safety, health and economic efficiency. 

In support of the district’s early childhood initiative, both elementary schools were designed to accommodate preschool classrooms.  Osborne Elementary School houses DART and Pennsylvania Pre-K Counts programs; Edgeworth Elementary School houses the Sewickley YMCA’s Children’s Center for Creative Learning Preschool Program.

Historically, each school has drawn from specific municipalities based on geographic locations determined during the 1960’s when Edgeworth and Osborne schools were built.  However, in an effort to maintain our small class sizes for the most effective instruction, we draw our students across boundaries to maintain equitable enrollment across each grade level. 

It is our pleasure to serve the district, the community and its most treasured assets, its children.

Mrs. Barbara W. Mellett, Osborne Elementary School Principal
Dr. Jeanne Johnson, Edgeworth Elementary Interim Principal