Penn-Trafford High School

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Penn-Trafford High School
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Penn-Trafford High School
3381 Route 130

Harrison City
,
Allegheny, Westmoreland
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Pennsylvania
15636

United States
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TypePublic
Established1972
School districtPenn-Trafford School District
PrincipalTony Aquilio
Staff73.00 (FTE) [1]
Grades9-12
Enrollment1,263 (2022–2023) [1]
Student to teacher ratio17.30 [1]
MascotWarrior
Team nameWarriors or Lady Warriors
Website http://pths.penntrafford.org/
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Penn-Trafford School District region in Allegheny County

Penn-Trafford High School is a public high school located in Harrison City, Pennsylvania in Westmoreland County, and is the secondary school serving the Penn-Trafford School District. It is the result of several mergers of smaller school districts and entities. It is the successor of Penn Joint High School and Trafford High School. The school colors are green and gold. The different government entities that are incorporated into this school district are, in size order, Penn Township, Trafford Borough, Manor Borough (part), and Penn Borough. The school district is mainly in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania with a small part of Trafford Borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

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The school opened in the fall of 1972 and graduated its first class in June 1973, with Reynold Peduzzi its first principal and William G. Kuznik serving as Penn-Trafford Superintendent at that time. [2]

Extracurriculars

The Penn-Trafford School District offers a large variety of clubs, activities and sports.

Athletics

Penn-Trafford participates in the Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League (WPIAL). [3] The colors are Dartmouth Green and Green Bay Gold. The nickname of the school's teams are the Warriors. In keeping with the Native American theme of the two high schools that merged to form Penn-Trafford, Warriors was chosen. The nickname of Penn Joint High School (a predecessor to Penn-Trafford) was the Indians. The nickname of Trafford High School (a predecessor to Penn-Trafford) was the Tomahawks. In 1971-1972, prior to the merger of the two high schools, a panel of eight students, four from each high school met to develop the new school nickname and color-schemes. The student body of each school were given the task of voting on the new school colors from three color-scheme options chosen by the student panel, Kelly Green and Green Bay Gold being one of them. The color-scheme options were selected by the panel to differentiate Penn-Trafford from the other Keystone Conference member schools. The top vote getter was Green and Gold. Dartmouth Green eventually replaced Kelly Green. [4]

The Warriors Girls Golf team won the WPIAL championships during the 2012- 2013 and the 2013-2014 seasons.[ citation needed ] In both competitive years, they proceeded to the PIAA state championships where they placed as runners- up.

The Warriors Field Hockey team won the WPIAL championships in 2011, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020. [5]

The Penn-Trafford Men's Volleyball team won[ when? ] three Section Championships in 2016, 2017, and 2018. They also won their first WPIAL Championship game in 2016.[ citation needed ]

In 2021, Penn-Trafford football won the Pennsylvania state championship in the 5A class. It was their first ever championship in the schools history.

Marching Band

When Penn High School and Trafford High School merged to form Penn-Trafford, the Marching Band used both the Penn and Trafford uniforms and was known as "The Big Green Machine". Later it was known as the Warrior Marching Band. In 2011 Penn-Trafford hosted a band show dedicated to the founding director, Emery Toth, who directed the band from 1972-1986.

The band competes in Class AAA in PIMBA (they originally performed in AAAA until 2013) and Class 3 Open in TOB. They hosted the PIMBA Championships in 1999, 2001, 2004, 2010, 2012, and 2014 and the TOB Chapter 8 Championships in 2016, 2017, and 2018. The band is also a BOA Regional Finalist and a seven-time TOB Class 3 Open Champion.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Penn Trafford HS". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved November 3, 2024.
  2. ↑ Mochnick, John W., History of Penn Township, 1982, pp.229, 231.
  3. ↑ Barnes, Keith (2007-11-16). "Penn-Trafford to play for first PIAA title". Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Archived from the original on 2008-04-23. Retrieved 2008-04-12. The Warriors were the third seed from the WPIAL after losing to Seneca Valley in the semifinals, but they recovered with victories against District 10 champion Erie McDowell, a Peters Township team that had defeated them, 9-1, in the South Park Kickoff Tournament and Mount Lebanon after losing, 1-0, to the Blue Devils in the season opener.
  4. ↑ Bucar, Paul - Date: 2010-08-18. One of the original eight student panel members representing the Trafford high school sophomore class.
  5. ↑ Love, Michael (2020-11-08). "Penn-Trafford beats Fox Chapel for WPIAL field hockey title". Trib HSSN. Retrieved 2020-11-14.
  6. ↑ "Alumni Hall of Fame".

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