South Hadley Public Schools

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South Hadley Public Schools
District information
Type Public
Open enrollment [1]
GradesPre K - 12
Established https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=South_Hadley_Public_Schools&action=history
SuperintendentMark McLaughlin
AccreditationNEASC
Schools4
Budget$29,624,595 total
$14,315 per pupil
(2016) [2]
Other information
Website www.southhadleyschools.org

South Hadley Public Schools, also known as South Hadley School Department, is a school district in South Hadley, Massachusetts, United States. The superintendent is Mark McLaughlin.

Contents

Governance

A five-person school committee, the equivalent of a board of education elsewhere, oversees the school district. The chairman of the school committee is John Kelly. [3] [4]

Schools

The district operates the following schools:

Bullying incident

South Hadley High School came to the attention of the national news media as the result of the suicide of 15-year-old student Phoebe Prince on January 14, 2010. [5] [6] [7] [8]

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  2. "Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education - per Pupil Expenditures Statewide Report".
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