Ephrata Area School District
| Ephrata Area School District | |
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Ephrata, Pennsylvania Lancaster County United States |
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| District information | |
| Grades | K-12th |
| Superintendent | Gerald B. Rosati |
| Students and staff | |
| Students | 3,995 |
| Teachers | 252 |
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| Website | Ephrata School District |
The Ephrata Area School District is a midsized, suburban, public school district located in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, US. Ephrata Area School District encompasses approximately 44 square miles. At the 2000 federal census it served a resident population of 30,458. In 2009 the district residents' annual per capita income was US$19,574, while the median family income was $51,151 a year. According to District officials, in school year 2007–08, the Ephrata Area School District provided basic educational services to 4,000 pupils. The district employed 316 teachers, 199 full-time and part-time support personnel, and 16 administrators in 2009. Ephrata Area School District received more than $14.3 million in state funding in school year 2007–08. The district is a member of Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit (IU) 13.
Source: Local School Directory
Ephrata Area School District was ranked 163rd out of 498 Pennsylvania School Districts in 2011 by the Pittsburgh Business Times. The ranking was based on five years of student academic performance based on the PSSA's on reading, mathematics and writing, as well as, three years of science.
In 2009, the academic achievement of the students of Ephrata Area School District was in the 48th percentile of Pennsylvania's 500 school districts. Scale (0–99; 100 is state best).
In 2010, the Pennsylvania Department of Education issued a new, 4-year cohort graduation rate. Ephrata Area School District's rate was 86% for 2010.
In January 2011, the Pennsylvania Department of Education identified the Washington Education Center as being in the bottom 5% of the state's public schools, for student academic achievement. According to the report, just 7.69% of the pupils were on grade level in both math and reading. In 2011, the school board changed the classification of the school to a second high school in the school district. For a time, this alternative school permitted students from other school districts to attend, but it terminated that policy in 2010. Washington Education Center graduated 70 students in 2009. It serves as an alternative education, senior high school. The school was required, by the Pennsylvania Department of Education, to revise its programming to comply with the state-mandated 990 hours of attendance for students at public schools in 2010. In 2010, twenty four of the school's teachers have emergency certification. Washington Educational Center is on Marshall Street in Ephrata Borough. It opened in October 1999, in the vacant former Washington Elementary School, as an alternative for students that could not complete the requirements of a traditional brick-and-mortar education. The new status means that, upon successful completion or requirements, students will receive an Ephrata High School diploma.
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