Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
This is a list of school districts in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, a U.S. state.. The article for each Pennsylvania county with more than one school district includes a map showing all public school districts in the county.
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.
This page was last edited on 26 October 2010, at 12:39 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
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.
As of 2020–2021, total student enrollment in the district was 7.089, according to National Center for Education Statistics data. The district operates five elementary schools, one middle school, one junior high school and one high school, Wilkes-Barre Area High School.
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 district encompasses approximately 26 square miles. According to the 2020 census, the Scranton School District serves a resident population of 76,997. [3] The educational attainment levels for the Scranton School District population (25 years old and over) were 83.9% high school graduates and 19.3% college graduates. [4]
The district is composed of four communities which are served by the Lehighton Area School District over a sixty-seven-square-mile area. East Penn Township is to the south of the borough of Lehighton , Mahoning Township is to the west along PA Route 443 , and Franklin Township is located on the east side of the Lehigh River .