SCRANTON – Supporters of George Bancroft Elementary School rallied Sunday afternoon in front of the building on Albright Avenue in an effort to persuade members of the Scranton School Board to ...

SCRANTON – Students will never walk the halls of George Bancroft Elementary School again. The Scranton School Board, which first discussed closing the school permanently more than six months ago ...

SCRANTON, Pa. — The Scranton School Board is considering closing George Bancroft Elementary because it needs costly repairs while the district is already more than $200 million dollars in debt.

Parents, students, and supporters gathered outside George Bancroft Elementary in Scranton, hoping school board members would hear their calls to keep the school open. RELATED: Parents, teachers ...

October 3 has come and gone without causing a ripple here in Worcester, even at the Bancroft School. On Oct. 3, 1800, George Bancroft was born in a modest frame house on what is now Salisbury Street.