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"It was a nice place to go to school. It was, you could tell everybody there had some kind of connection to the university, directly or indirectly, and was the son or daughter of a staffer or faculty member or a merchant or service person who served the university and the university community. It really was a university town back then."

- David Kirkman

Glenwood Elementary School is a STEAM magnet school serving grades K-5 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

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Citation: “Glenwood Elementary,” From the Rock Wall, accessed November 21, 2024, https://fromtherockwall.org/places/glenwood-elementary.

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