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The high school and middle school have one of the best Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science teams in the state. [citation needed] The current era of the team started in the 2006–2007 school year. Since then the team has grown to 32 members in the 2010–2011 school year. Approximately 85-90% of the students qualify for the state meet each year.
In Pennsylvania, intermediate units are regional educational service agencies, established by the Pennsylvania General Assembly.Intermediate units are public entities and serve a given geographic area's educational needs and function as a step of organization above that of a public school district, but below that of the Pennsylvania Department of Education.
Circa the late 1960s the number of school districts was 2,277. The state government had passed laws encouraging these districts to merge with one another, so the figure fell to 669, and then 501, in the 1970s and then in 1981. [1] There are approximately 500 public school districts in Pennsylvania as of 2023.
Deer Lakes High School, Russellton Eden Christian Academy, Pittsburgh, Sewickley, and Wexford Fox Chapel Area High School, Fox Chapel; Hampton High School, Allison Park; North Allegheny Intermediate High School, McCandless
As of 2021, there are 151 elementary/K-8 schools, 16 middle schools, and 57 high schools in the School District of Philadelphia, excluding charter schools. [1] The Thomas K. Finletter School serves kindergarten through 8th grade students in the Olney neighborhood of Philadelphia.
The schools below were built under the sub-district system and taken over by the Board of Public Education in 1911. [1] [2] Some sub-districts gave unique names to each school, while others used numbered schools (e.g. Colfax No. 1). The school board renamed all of the numbered schools in 1912.
The school is part of the West Branch Area School District. The current school building was completed in 1964. An addition to the High School building was finished in 2005. In 2013, enrollment at West Branch Area Junior Senior High School was reported as 549 pupils in 7th through 12th grades. [3]
The School District of Philadelphia (SDP) is the school district that includes all school district-operated public schools in Philadelphia. [9] Established in 1818, it is largest school district in Pennsylvania and the eighth-largest school district in the nation, serving over 197,000 students as of 2022. [10]