Harry S Truman High School (Levittown, Pennsylvania)
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3001 Green Lane Levittown, PA 19057 United States |
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| School type | Public |
| School district | Bristol Township School District |
| Superintendent | Melanie Gehrens, Ed.D |
| Principal | Mr. Lyndell Davis |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Enrollment | 1,581 (as of 2017) |
| • Grade 9 | 491 |
| • Grade 10 | 388 |
| • Grade 11 | 345 |
| • Grade 12 | 357 |
| Hours in school day | 8 |
| School color(s) | Black and Gold |
| Mascot | Tiger |
| Team name | Harry S Truman Tigers |
| Website | www |
Harry S Truman High School (often referred to as HST or simply Truman), formerly Woodrow Wilson High School, is a public high school located in Levittown, Pennsylvania. The school is a part of the Bristol Township School District in Bristol Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and is its only high school. It was named after US President Harry S Truman. It hosts grades 9-12. The current principal is Lyndell Davis.
Harry S Truman High School has historically offered the various Advanced Placement (AP) level classes, including U.S. History, U.S. Government and Politics, Chemistry, English Literature, Statistics, and Calculus AB (though BC has been offered to particularly advanced students). The school also offers Project Lead the Way courses that result as college credits. Those include Intro to Digital Electronics, Intro to Engineering Design, Principles of Engineering & Civil & Architectural Engineering. HST won an AP Honor Roll award for their distinguished scholars for the years 2011-2012, besting other school districts in the area.
Truman offers five years of instruction in Italian and Spanish. It also has an extensive English as a Second Language (ESL) program and often hosts international students who are studying abroad in the United States.
Harry S Truman HS was a pilot school for the United States Navy's Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps program. The Harry S Truman NJROTC unit was active from 1968 until 1996. It was the first JROTC unit to admit female cadets.
Truman has a nationally recognized speech and debate team. The team competes in the National Speech and Debate Association (Valley Forge district), the Philadelphia Catholic Forensic League, the Southeastern Pennsylvania Debate League, the Pennsylvania High School Speech League (district 12), and at numerous national and regional invitationals.
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