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Dunmore High School

Dunmore High School
Address
300 West Warren Street
Dunmore, PA 18512
United States
Information
Type Public Comprehensive Secondary
Motto "The Buck Starts Here"
Opened 1932 (current school)
School district Dunmore School District
Superintendent Mr. John Marichak
Principal Mr. Matthew Quinn
Athletic Director Mr. Mark Rinaldi
Faculty 40 Teachers and Administrators
Grades 9 to 12
Gender coed
Enrollment 570 (as of 2009-10)
 • Grade 9 113 (2012), 119 (2010)
 • Grade 10 115 (2012), 129
 • Grade 11 132 (2012), 139
 • Grade 12 112 (2012), 130 (2010)
Campus type Suburban
Color(s)          Crimson and Blue
Mascot Buck
Newspaper The Crimson Courier
Website

Dunmore High School is the secondary education, public school for the borough of Dunmore, Pennsylvania. It is part of the Dunmore School District. Dunmore High School is located at 300 West Warren Street. In 2014, Dunmore High School enrollment was reported as 471 pupils in 9th through 12th grades, with 24% of pupils eligible for a free lunch due to family poverty. Additionally, 13.8% of pupils received special education services, while none of the pupils were identified as gifted. The school employed 35 teachers. Per the Pennsylvania Department of Education, 100% of the teachers were rated "Highly Qualified" under the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

According to the National Center for Education Statistics, in 2011, Dunmore HIgh School reported an enrollment of 479 pupils in grades 9th through 12th, with 88 pupils eligible for a federal free or reduced price lunch due to the family meeting the federal poverty level. In 2011, the School employed 35 teachers yielding a student-teacher ratio of 13:1. According to a report by the Pennsylvania Department of Education, 2 teachers were rated "Non‐Highly Qualified" under No Child Left Behind.

Dunmore High School is one of the three (Scranton, Old Forge, Dunmore) school districts in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania that does not include surrounding boroughs. In June 2014, Dunmore School Board closed the junior high school and consolidated the 7th and 8th grades into the high school building. The middle school functions distinct from the high school.

In April 2014, the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) released a report identifying Dunmore High School as among the 15% lowest achieving schools in the Commonwealth in 2013-14 and 2014-15. Parents and students may be eligible for scholarships to transfer to another public or nonpublic school through the state's Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit Program passed in June 2012. The scholarships are limited to those students whose family's income is less than $60,000 annually, with another $12,000 allowed per dependent. Maximum scholarship award is $8,500, with special education students receiving up to $15,000 for a year's tuition. Parents pay any difference between the scholarship amount and the receiving school's tuition rate. Students may seek admission to neighboring public school districts. Each year the PDE publishes the tuition rate for each individual public school district. Funding for the scholarships comes from donations by businesses which receive a state tax credit for donating.


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