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Lower Burrell is a city in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States. Located approximately 18 miles outside of Downtown Pittsburgh, Lower Burrell is part of the Pittsburgh Metropolitan Area. The population was 12,608 at the 2000 census.
The City of Lower Burrell and Upper Burrell Township are jointly served by the Burrell School District. Currently, the school district consists of two elementary schools, Bon Air E.S. and Stewart E.S.; 1 middle school, Charles A. Huston M.S. and 1 high school, Burrell H.S. On a post-secondary level, Lower Burrell is home to Newport Business Institute and Oakbridge Academy of Arts, both located in the City’s Kinloch neighborhood. Pennsylvania State University New Kensington Campus is located less than a half-mile outside the City-limits in Upper Burrell Township. There is a local campus of Westmoreland County Community College located in neighboring New Kensington. In addition to these schools, the majority of the colleges and universities in Pittsburgh are within a half-hour’s drive of Lower Burrell.
In 1852, Burrell Township was carved out of Allegheny Township in Westmoreland County due to an increase in population in the area, by Judge Jeremiah Murry Burrell. In 1879 Burrell Township was divided into two separate townships, Lower Burrell and Upper Burrell. It is to be noted that the present-day cities of New Kensington and Arnold once resided within Lower Burrell Township. In the years that followed, Lower Burrell transformed from a quiet, rural farm community to a large residential and commercial area while Upper Burrell stayed primarily rural. In 1959, in the midst of the growth of their community, township residents voted to make Lower Burrell a third class city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Lower Burrell continued to grow substantially until the 1980′s when new construction in the City was rare. Since the early 1990′s and into the new millennium, however, Lower Burrell is once again growing, with different residential and commercial projects having been constructed or being planned.
