Big Beaver Falls Area School District
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1503 Eighth Avenue Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, 15010 United States |
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| Coordinates | 40°45′25″N 80°19′16″W / 40.757081°N 80.3211225°WCoordinates: 40°45′25″N 80°19′16″W / 40.757081°N 80.3211225°W |
| District information | |
| Type | Public |
| Motto | Once a Tiger, Always a Tiger |
| Grades | Pre-Kindergarten-12 |
| Established | 1867 |
| Superintendent | Dr. Donna Nugent |
| Asst. Superintendent(s) | Peggy Lavery |
| School board | Cynthia Cook (President), Clifford Alford, Tom Karczewski, Dr. Todd Allen, Terri Ellinwood, R. Scott Pagley, Dick Attisano, Susan Smith, Ron Miller |
| Schools |
4 total:
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| Budget |
 $26,306,494 |
| District ID | 4203630 |
| Students and staff | |
| Students | 1,698 |
| Teachers | 120 |
| Staff | 220 |
| Student-teacher ratio | 14:1 |
| District mascot | Tigers |
| Colors |
Orange Black |
| Other information | |
| Website | www |
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The Big Beaver Falls Area School District is a midsized, suburban public school district in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, United States. It serves the City of Beaver Falls, the Boroughs of Big Beaver, Eastvale, Homewood, Koppel and New Galilee and White Township. The district encompasses approximately 22 square miles (57 km2). According to 2000 federal census data, it serves a resident population of 15,260 people. In 2009, the district residents’ per capita income was $14,937, while the median family income was $33,942. In the Commonwealth, the median family income was $49,501 and the United States median family income was $49,445, in 2010. According to District officials, in school year 2009-10 the Big Beaver Falls Area School District provided basic educational services to 1,746 pupils through the employment of 157 teachers, 96 full-time and part-time support personnel, and 11 administrators. Big Beaver Falls Area School District received more than $14.3 million in state funding in school year 2009-10.
The district operates: two elementary schools, a middle school and a high school.
The school district is governed by 9 individually elected board members (serve four-year terms), the Pennsylvania State Board of Education, the Pennsylvania Department of Education and the Pennsylvania General Assembly. The federal government controls programs it funds like Title I funding for low-income children in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and the No Child Left Behind Act, which mandates the district focus resources on student success in acquiring reading and math skills.
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