Elizabethtown Area School District

Elizabethtown Area School District
Location
United States
Students and staff
District mascot	Bears
Colors	Blue and White

Map of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Public School Districts. Elizabethtown Area School District is in pink in the North-West corner of the county.

The Elizabethtown Area School District is a school district in the Northwest corner of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States that serves Elizabethown Borough and the townships of Conoy, and West Donegal, as well as the North and West part of Mount Joy Township. It is a member of Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit (IU) 13.

Schools

Schools in the Elizabethtown Area School District include:

• Elizabethtown Area High School
• Elizabethtown Middle School
• Bainbridge Elementary
• East High Elementary
• Bear Creek Intermediate School

National/State Recognition

The high school has won state championships in field hockey in 1974, baseball in 1993. ^[1] The district's Quiz Bowl Team was national runner up at the 2004 National Academic Championship. ^{[2] [ citation needed ]}

In November 2015, Mill Road Elementary School was honored as a National Blue Ribbon School. In that same year, East High Elementary School was honored as a "High Achievement Reward School".

District profile

• As of the census ^[3] of 2000
  • District Population: 27,485 people
  • District Area: 56.0 square miles (145 km²)
• School Colors - Blue and White
• District Mascot - Elizabethtown Bears
• School Nickname - "E-Town"
• Member of the Lancaster-Lebanon 2 Sports League

Notable Graduates

• Nelson Chittum, former MLB pitcher ^[4]
• Gene Garber, former major league baseball pitcher with the Pittsburgh Pirates, Kansas City Royals, Philadelphia Phillies, and Atlanta Braves.

References

1. http://www.piaa.org/assets/web/documents/results/Spring/Baseball%20-%20Past%20Championships.pdf ^{[ bare URL PDF ]}
2. "The Quizbowl Wiki Has Moved". www.doc-ent.com.
3. "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau . Retrieved January 31, 2008.
4. "Nelson Chittum – Society for American Baseball Research".

External links

• Elizabethtown Area School District
• Elizabethtown Area High School Archived 2011-10-03 at the Wayback Machine
• Elizabethtown Middle School Archived 2011-10-03 at the Wayback Machine
• Bainbridge Elementary School Archived 2011-10-03 at the Wayback Machine
• East High Elementary School Archived 2011-10-03 at the Wayback Machine
• Fairview Elementary School Archived 2011-10-03 at the Wayback Machine
• Mill Road Elementary School Archived 2011-10-03 at the Wayback Machine
• Rheems Elementary School Archived 2011-10-03 at the Wayback Machine
• Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13
• Lancaster-Lebanon Sports League Archived 2006-05-03 at the Wayback Machine