Chartiers Valley School District

Chartiers Valley School District
Map of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania School Districts with Chartiers Valley School District in orange in southwest Allegheny County.
Address
2030 Swallow Hill Road Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Allegheny 15220 United States
Information
Type	Public
Superintendent	Dr. Brian White
Head of school	Paul Newton
Grades	K-12
Enrollment	3419 (2009-10)
• Kindergarten	244
• Grade 1	255
• Grade 2	248
• Grade 3	255
• Grade 4	252
• Grade 5	254
• Grade 6	250
• Grade 7	245
• Grade 8	276
• Grade 9	299
• Grade 10	277
• Grade 11	276
• Grade 12	288
• Other	Enrollment projected by PDE to decline to 3100 in 2020
Color(s)	Red&Blue
Slogan	"Ya like jazz?"
Fight song	"Let it Grow" From the Lorax, written by Christopher Stewart, Ester Dean, Cinco Paul, John Powell and Aaron Pearce Produced by Christopher Stewart
Mascot	Colts
Nickname	Char Valley
Rival	South Fayette, Montour
Budget	$52.2 million 2012-13
Website	http://www.cvsd.net/pages/Chartiers_Valley_SD

The Chartiers Valley School District is a suburban borough school district that serves an area southwest of Pittsburgh, including the Boroughs of Bridgeville and Heidelberg and Collier Township and Scott Township in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. The district was formed in 1956. Chartiers Valley School District encompasses approximately 18 square miles. According to 2000 federal census data, it serves a resident population of 29,119. In 2009, the district residents' per capita income was $23,365, while the median family income was $51,647. According to District officials, in school year 2007-08 the Chartiers Valley School District provided basic educational services to 3,471 pupils through the employment of 264 teachers, 255 full-time and part-time support personnel, and 22 administrators. Chartiers Valley School District received more than $9.1 million in state funding in school year 2007-08.

The district operates one high school, one middle school, one intermediate school and one primary school.

The district borders eight other school districts: Montour S.D., Mt. Lebanon S.D., Keystone Oaks S.D., Upper St. Clair S.D., South Fayette S.D., West Allegheny S.D., Carlynton S.D. and Pittsburgh S.D.

The school district is named after Pierre Chartiers (1690—1759) who established a trading post in the area in 1743.

Chartiers Valley School District operates four schools. They are:

In 2012, the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA) ranked Chartiers Valley High School in the upper two-fifths of all Pennsylvania public high schools (263rd out of 676) based on their combined reading and math test scores.

In 2011, Chartiers Valley School District ranked 158th out of 498 Pennsylvania districts. The ranking is based on five years of student academic achievement as demonstrated by PSSAs results in reading, writing, math and three years of science.

Chartiers Valley School District was ranked 38th out of 105 western Pennsylvania school districts in 2009 by the Pittsburgh Business Times. The ranking was based on three years of student academic performance on the PSSAs on: math, reading, writing and one year of science. The school district was ranked 48th out of 105 western Pennsylvania school districts in 2008 by the Pittsburgh Business Times.