Salisbury High School (Pennsylvania)

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Salisbury High School
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Salisbury High School in Salisbury Township, Pennsylvania, June 2015
Address
Salisbury High School (Pennsylvania)
500 East Montgomery Street

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18103-5225

United States
Coordinates 40°35′3″N75°26′32″W / 40.58417°N 75.44222°W / 40.58417; -75.44222
Information
Type Public high school
Established1963;60 years ago (1963)
School district Salisbury Township School District
NCES School ID 422073002833 [1]
PrincipalHeather Morningstar
Staff34.23 (on an FTE basis) [1]
Grades 9th12th
Enrollment516 [1]  (2021–22)
Student to teacher ratio15.07 [1]
Campus typeSuburb: Large
Color(s)Navy and White   
Athletics conference Colonial League
Website www.salisburysd.org

Salisbury High School is a public high school located in Salisbury Township, Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania. It is the only high school within the Salisbury Township School District.

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As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 516 students, according to National Center for Education Statistics data.

History

Salisbury Township was founded in 1834.

In 1955, the construction for Salisbury High School was planned. Construction started in 1962 and was finished in 1963.

Until 2011, Salisbury High School served 10th through 12th grades 10-12, with ninth grade attending Salisbury Middle School. The high school underwent major renovations between 2009 and 2011, which included making space to move the district's 9th-grade students into the high school. [2]

Athletics

Districts

Salisbury participates in the Colonial League of the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association's District XI. The Colonial League includes Lehigh Valley high schools deemed too small to participate in the East Penn Conference.

Colonial League titles

Eastern Pennsylvania Conference championship

State championship titles

The school fields teams in most major sports, including boys baseball, boys and girls basketball, boys tennis, cheerleading, girls field hockey, girls softball, football, soccer, rifle, wrestling, and track & field. [4]

Teams

Salisbury has the Colonial League titles in Basketball and Baseball. The Field hockey team has never made a district appearance. The District Swimming Team won districts in 2012. Salisbury offers twenty-one varsity and twelve junior varsity sport programs. [5]

Varsity

Notable alumni

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