Pleasant Valley High School (Pennsylvania)

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Pleasant Valley High School
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Pleasant Valley High School (Pennsylvania)
1671 Route 209

Brodheadsville, Pennsylvania
18322

United States
Coordinates 40°55′22.8″N75°24′10.8″W / 40.923000°N 75.403000°W / 40.923000; -75.403000
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Type Public high school
Motto"Excellence in Education: A Community Commitment"
Established1960;64 years ago (1960)
School district Pleasant Valley School District
NCES School ID 421929003210
Co-PrincipalsJonathan Ayre, Brian Boylan [1]
Staff77.47 (on an FTE basis) [2]
Grades9-12
Enrollment1,343 (2022–23) [2]
Student to teacher ratio17.34 [2]
Color(s)Blue and white   
Athletics conference Eastern Pennsylvania Conference
MascotBear
Rival Stroudsburg High School [3]
Website pvbears.org/pvhs

Pleasant Valley High School is a public high school in Brodheadsville, Pennsylvania (U.S.). It is the sole high school operated by the Pleasant Valley School District.

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As of the 2022-23 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,343 students, according to National Center for Education Statistics data. [2]

The school's name was given by its founder, John C. Mills, who took it from a common name for the area used by the locals. Pleasant Valley High School is located on U.S. Route 209. The building was built in 1960 and renovated in 2005. [4] The school had 1,569 students as of the 2018–2019 school year. [2]

Arts

In 2010, Pleasant Valley High School Marching Band was crowned the USBands Group 4A Pennsylvania State Champions with their show "Western Portraits." The show included songs such as "The Magnificent Seven", Silverado, and Hoedown.

Athletics

Pleasant Valley competes athletically in the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference (EPC) in District XI of the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association (PIAA), one of the premier high school athletic divisions in the nation.

The district's varsity sports include:

According to PIAA directory July 2013 [5]

Pleasant Valley has had athletic successes in many different events. For over a dozen years, the baseball team was undefeated. All of the school's teams participate in the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference.

Pleasant Valley Wrestling The wrestling program has grown strong over the past several years. In 2002-2003, the school was ranked top 10 in the PIAA AAA and the top 50 nationally. Two wrestlers medaled in 2010 PIAA states.

Pleasant Valley Football The Pleasant Valley Football program was a major contender in the Mountain Valley Conference (MVC) for quite some time, winning the District 11 Championship in 1999 and numerous Conference Championships. Since then, they were MVC champions a few more times and continued to be a top competitor in the MVC. A new head football coach, Jimmy Terwilliger, was hired in March 2009. Terwilliger, the former Harlon Hill Trophy winner (considered to be the Division II equivalent of the Heisman Trophy), tried to put the Bears back in the MVC race. The proudest part of Pleasant Valley Football's history is "The Old Oaken Bucket". It is an annual rivalry game between the Pocono Mountain East Cardinals and the PV Bears, which has been played since the 1960s. For 8 years, up until the 07–08 season, the Bears have kept the bucket. This is an individual record for the most times in a row either of the teams have had the bucket. Also Pleasant Valley has had the bucket, the trophy given to the team who wins the game each year that really is a bucket with a football trophy topper on it, the most times out of all 40+ years they have been playing this game. Pleasant Valley currently holds "The Bucket" after an emotional game that came down to the last play. Pleasant Valley won 24–19. Pleasant Valley leads the series with Pocono Mountain.

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References

  1. ↑ "Administrative Team". Pleasant Valley High School. Retrieved December 8, 2022.[ self-published source ]
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Search for Public Schools - Pleasant Valley HS (421929003210)". National Center for Education Statistics . Institute of Education Sciences . Retrieved February 11, 2024.
  3. ↑ "Hard to believe, but it's rivalry week", The Morning Call, October 26, 2021
  4. ↑ Public Financial Management, Inc. (July 8, 2010). "PLEASANT VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT FACILITIES - General Obligation Bonds, Series of 2010 report" (PDF).
  5. ↑ Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletics Association (2013). "PIAA School Directory".
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