Corry Area School District | |
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Address | |
540 East Pleasant Street Corry, Pennsylvania, Crawford, Erie, Warren 16407 United States |
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Information | |
Type | Public |
Grades | K-12 |
Enrollment | 2288 pupils in 2010. |
• Kindergarten | 144 |
• Grade 1 | 154 |
• Grade 2 | 157 |
• Grade 3 | 152 |
• Grade 4 | 149 |
• Grade 5 | 152 |
• Grade 6 | 168 |
• Grade 7 | 197 |
• Grade 8 | 181 |
• Grade 9 | 181 |
• Grade 10 | 224 |
• Grade 11 | 203 |
• Grade 12 | 227 |
• Other | Enrollment is projected to decline to 1900 pupils by 2010 |
Mascot | Beavers |
Website | https://sites.google.com/a/corrysd.net/casd/home |
The Corry Area School District is a midsized, rural, public school district which spans portions of three counties in northwestern Pennsylvania. In Crawford County it covers the Borough of Spartansburg and Sparta Township. In Erie County it covers the City of Corry, the Borough of Elgin and Concord Township and Wayne Township. In Warren County it covers Columbus Township and Spring Creek Township. The district encompasses 241 square miles. According to 2000 federal census data, it serves a resident population of 14,883. In 2009, the district residents’ per capita income was $16,881, while the median family income was $40,063. In the Commonwealth, the median family income was $49,501 and the United States median family income was $49,445, in 2010. Per District officials, in school year 2007-08, the Corry Area School District provided basic educational services to 2,448 pupils. It employed 195 teachers, 116 full-time and part-time support personnel, and 16 administrators. Corry Area School District received more than $18.1 million in state funding in school year 2007-08.
The district operates Corry Area High School (9th through12th), Corry Area Middle School (6th through 8th), Corry Intermediate School (3rd through 5th), \ Corry Primary School (Pre-K through 2nd) The district also operates the Corry Area Career and Technical Center.
Corry Area 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.