Laurel Highlands School District
| Laurel Highlands School District | |
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304 Bailey Avenue Uniontown, Pennsylvania 15401 United States |
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| Type | Public |
| Established | 1965 |
| Superintendent | Dr. Jesse T. Wallace, III |
| Grades | K-12 |
| Enrollment | 3345 pupils in 2011 |
| • Kindergarten | 279 |
| • Grade 1 | 185 |
| • Grade 2 | 256 |
| • Grade 3 | 233 |
| • Grade 4 | 243 |
| • Grade 5 | 236 |
| • Grade 6 | 261 |
| • Grade 7 | 246 |
| • Grade 8 | 306 |
| • Grade 9 | 318 |
| • Grade 10 | 287 |
| • Grade 11 | 246 |
| • Grade 12 | 248 |
| • Other | Enrollment is projected to decline 2954 by 2020 |
| Color(s) | Red, white and blue |
| Mascot | Mustangs |
| Rival | Uniontown Area School District |
| Website | http://www.lhsd.org/ |
Laurel Highlands School District is a public school district located in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, USA. It serves North and South Union Townships. Laurel Highlands School District encompasses approximately 55 square miles. According to the 2000 federal census, it serves a resident population of 25,477. The residents' per capita income was $16,768, while the median family income was $37,681 a year. In the Commonwealth, the median family income was $49,501 and the United States median family income was $49,445, in 2010. According to Laurel Highlands School District officials, for the school year 2007-08, Laurel Highlands School District provided basic educational services to 3,439 pupils. The District employs 235 teachers, 141 full-time and part-time support personnel, and 16 administrators. Laurel Highlands School District received more than $20.1 million in state funding in school year 2007-08.
LHSD was created in 1965, merging rivals North Union and South Union School Districts. The change did not become official until the 1967-1968 school term. Students attended high school in the former high schools until completion of the current high school in 1972.
John F. Kennedy Elementary School was part of the school district until it was closed after the 2003-2004 school year. It was later turned into a mental health treatment facility, called New Directions, for school age children.
The building opened as South Laurel Junior High School in 1968, housing grades seven through nine. Originally, students from the district's three elementary schools in South Union Township (Areford, Hatfield, and Hutchinson) attended South Laurel Junior High. When North Laurel, the other junior high, was closed in 1984, it was renamed Laurel Highlands Junior High School. Ninth grade was moved to the high school, and the new merged junior high housed all Laurel Highlands students in grades seven and eight. After an extensive renovation was completed in August 2003, the school was renamed Laurel Highlands Middle School, with students in grades six through eight attending.
The school district is governed by nine individually elected board members serving 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.
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