Millcreek Township School District

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Millcreek Township School District
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Location
United States
District information
Type Public
MottoPRIDE! is one of our products
GradesK-12
Established1805;218 years ago (1805)
SuperintendentDr. John Cavanagh
Students and staff
Students7,464
Colors Blue & White
Other information
Website mtsd.org

Millcreek Township School District is a school district serving Millcreek Township, a suburb of Erie, Pennsylvania. The total enrollment is 7,464 students. [1] The district was the pilot district in the Start S.M.A.R.T. Program in 2002. [2]

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Schools

The Millcreek Township School District is home to 10 schools.

Elementary schools

Middle schools

Walnut Creek Middle School

From 2000-2002 students at the school worked with the Asbury Woods Nature Center in a project to assess the Walnut Creek watershed to help with public education and protection of the natural resource. [3]

The development of the nature center's educational program was one of a number of environmental education projects undertaken by students the school's science classes. A class, calling itself "Walnut Creek S.E.W.E.R." (Saving Erie's Water & Environmental Resources), also worked on projects to educate their community "about cleaner water, including a billboard and brochures, such as Your Lawn & Pesticides: What Goes Around, Comes Around," according to The Carnegie Reporter. "They have also worked with local officials to increase street sweeping, which reduces runoff into the water." [4] Asbury middle school

High schools

Technical/ Alternative Education

Notes

  1. Millcreek Township School District schools - district elementary, middle, and high school information
  2. "Millcreek Township School District: History". Archived from the original on 2004-12-12. Retrieved 2007-04-01.
  3. Web page about the "Walnut Creek Watershed Initiative" giving progress reports, at the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection's "Growing Greener" Web site, accessed March 25, 2007
  4. Baldwin, Joyce, "Civic Education in Schools: The Right Time is Now" article in The Carnegie Reporter, Vol. 2/No. 3, Fall 2003, published by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, accessed March 24, 2007

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