| Indiana Area School District | |
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| Address | |
501 East Pike Indiana , Indiana County, Pennsylvania , 15701United States | |
| District information | |
| Type | Public |
| Grades | K-12 |
| Superintendent | Mike Vuckovich |
| Students and staff | |
| Athletic conference | WPIAL |
| Colors | Black and Red |
| Other information | |
| Website | www |
Indiana Area School District is a public school district in Indiana County, Pennsylvania. It is composed of White Township and Armstrong Township, along with Indiana and Shelocta boroughs.
The Indiana Area School District has four elementary schools. Two of these serve for grades K-3, and two serving for grades 4–5, and each serving a different part of the district. Ben Franklin Elementary School (K-3) and Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary School (4-5) serve Shelocta, Armstrong Township, west-central White Township, mostly the northwest corner of White Township, but also a small strip of western and southwestern White Township and the western third of Indiana Borough. East Pike Elementary School (K-3) and Horace Mann Elementary School (4-5) serve the eastern third of White Township, the northeastern corner of Indiana Borough, southern Indiana Borough and south-central and most of southwestern White Township.
Indiana Area School District has two secondary schools. Indiana Area Junior High School (IJHS) contains grades 6-8, and Indiana Area Senior High School (IHS) contains grades 9-12.
Approximately 32,000 people are serviced by the school district, and 3,000 students are currently enrolled in the system. The average graduation rate is 92%, and the average graduating class contains 250 students. Approximately 76% of all graduates enroll in some sort of post-secondary education. As of 2005, district employs 257 staff members, 202 of whom have their master's degree or above. On average, each staff member has 17 years of experience with the district.
The Indiana Area School District consistently demonstrates that it is in the top tier of public school districts. Recently, it was ranked as one of the top 100 school districts by Offspring Magazine.
The school district does especially well on standardized tests. It was once ranked third, out of 501 school districts, in scores on the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment given to all 5th, 8th, and 11th grade students, and has received numerous accolades for its journalism and social studies programs, including a $349,000 grant given to the senior high school's history program. In addition, graduating classes have averaged up to 40 more points on the Scholastic Aptitude Test than the national average.
Each class graduates nearly 80% of its students into post-secondary education. Most attend Indiana University of Pennsylvania, located within the district. Indiana Area School District also consistently sends students into three leading local universities, Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania State University and the University of Pittsburgh. Alumni have also entered Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Rice University, the United States Naval Academy, the United States Military Academy, Harvard University, Cornell University, the University of Pennsylvania, Bucknell University, the University of Virginia, the University of Richmond, the University of Notre Dame, Case Western Reserve University, James Madison University, New York University, Manhattan School of Music, Villanova University, the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and The Juilliard School. Many students who do not go on to post-secondary education choose to enlist in the armed forces, including the United States Marine Corps.
Indiana Area School District offers a variety of extracurricular activities, the chief among them being sports. The junior and senior high school also offer clubs, with a majority of students participating in them.
Both Indiana Area Junior High School and Indiana High School offer club programs for students. The largest among them is a volunteer club, Builders' Club at the junior high school and Key Club at the senior high school. Key Club counts about 25% of the high school student body as members. Among the high school's 20+ clubs, there is also Future Business Leaders of America, Relay For Life, and many theater clubs.
The entire district offers a wide variety of sports. The elementary schools have basketball, grouped by sex and grade. At the end of each school year, each school stages an "All-School Tournament," in which all players are eligible. IJHS offers students football, soccer, track and field, cross country, and girls' volleyball. The high school has even more selections. with boys' baseball, girls' softball, spring and winter track and field, tennis, golf, riflery, hockey, swimming, and diving.
The elementary schools each have their own separate sports teams. Ben Franklin Elementary School's colors are green and gold, and their teams are known as the Braves. Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary School's colors are blue and gold, and their teams are known as the Eagles. East Pike Elementary School's colors are red and white, and their teams there are known as the Chiefs. Horace Mann Elementary School's colors are red and white, and its teams are known as the Warriors.
The colors of both the junior and senior high schools are red and black, and the team name is the "Indians" and their fight song is "Cherokee." This is taken from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania's sports teams, which were previously known as the "Indians," and their fight song was formerly "Cherokee" as well. In general, most of the junior and senior high school's sports teams are outfitted in white uniforms. The football team also wears blood-red and black jerseys and pants; the softball team wears gray, pinstriped uniforms; the basketball teams wear black uniforms; and the hockey team has red, black, and white uniforms.
The cross country, swimming and diving, boys' tennis, ice hockey, boys' and girls' basketball, and the track and field teams are Indiana's strongest teams. The boys' basketball team won the Class AAA WPIAL Championship in 2014–2015 season. The ice hockey team won the PIHL D-2 championship in the 2014–15 season [1] The team made their first ever Penguins Cup Championship and State Championship appearance in the 2020-2021 season. [2] During the 2018 season, the high school men's cross country team was the PIAA state runner-up in the AA division. The hockey team competes in the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Hockey League, while all other teams compete in the Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League, or WPIAL.
Several high school athletes have gone on to participate in post-secondary sports teams in various sports, such as basketball, football, softball, cross country, track and field, and swimming. One Indiana High School alum earned 22 varsity letters in only 4 years of attending the Indiana Area Senior High School, participating in the sports golf, cross country, swimming, indoor track and field, tennis, and spring track and field. A Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported the student was, "...possibly be the most unique athlete in WPIAL history." [3]
Student councils/governments are available for students in both the Indiana Area Junior and Senior High School to participate in. In the Junior High School, the student council organization is known as the Student Council, or STUCO for short. In the high school, the student council organization is known as the Student Government Association, or SGA for short. Students must maintain a set grade point average in order to participate in the latter organization.
Students in grades 6-8 are eligible to participate in the Junior High Student Council. The Student Council is a student-led organization dedicated to benefitting the Indiana Junior High School. The Student Council is primarily led by a president and vice president elected each year, along with several other important positions.
Students attending the Indiana Area Senior High School can be admitted into the Student Government Association. This organization helps set up the school's annual Teddy Bear Fund Drive and the annual Red Cross blood drive.
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