Connellsville Area School District | |
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732 Rock Ridge Road Connellsville , Fayette County, Pennsylvania , 15425United States | |
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The Connellsville Area School District is a large rural, public school district which covers the City of Connellsville, the Boroughs of Dawson, Dunbar, Seven Springs, South Connellsville and Vanderbilt and Bullskin Township, Connellsville Township, Dunbar Township, Saltlick Township, Springfield Township and Stewart Township in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. The district encompasses approximately 216 square miles (560 km2). According to 2000 federal census data, Connellsville Area School District serves a resident population of 38,303. By 2010, the district's population declined to 34,453 people. [1] The educational attainment levels for the Connellsville Area School District population (25 years old and over) were 85.2% high school graduates and 11.6% college graduates. [2] The district is one of the 500 public school districts of Pennsylvania. Connellsville Area School District was established in 1966. It is considered a Second Class public school district due to its resident population exceeding 30,000, but being less than two hundred fifty thousand (250,000) people.
According to the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center, 55.7% of the district's pupils lived at 185% or below the Federal Poverty Level as shown by their eligibility for the federal free or reduced price school meal programs in 2012. [3] In 2013, the Pennsylvania Department of Education, reported that 43 students in the Connellsville Area School District were homeless. [4]
In 2009, the district residents' per capita income was $15,194 a year, while the median family income was $35,638. [5] In Fayette County, the median household income was $39,115. [6] In the Commonwealth, the median family income was $49,501 [7] and the United States median family income was $49,445, in 2010. [8] By 2013, the median household income in the United States rose to $52,100. [9] In 2014, the median household income in the USA was $53,700. [10]
The Intermediate Unit IU1 provides the district with a wide variety of services like specialized education for disabled students and hearing, background checks for employees, state mandated recognizing and reporting child abuse training, speech and visual disability services and criminal background check processing for prospective employees and professional development for staff and faculty.
Connellsville Area School District operates eleven schools including a career-technical school and a cyber academy is available to students in grades 7th through 12Th..
There are four elementary schools in the district, all facilitate classes for grades K-5. [11]
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