Mt. Lebanon School District
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Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania United States |
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| Type | public school district |
| Motto | To Provide the Best Education Possible for Each and Every Student |
| Established | July 1912] |
| Superintendent | Dr. Timothy Steinhauer |
| Grades | K-12 |
| Color(s) | Blue and gold |
| Athletics conference | WPIAL |
| Rival | Upper Saint Clair |
| Budget | $80.6 million 2012–13 |
| Website | http://www.mtlsd.org |
Mt. Lebanon School District is the public school system in Allegheny County for residents of Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
This district's only high school is Mt. Lebanon High School. The mddle schools are Andrew W. Mellon Middle School and Thomas Jefferson Middle School. The elementary schools include Stephen Foster Elementary School, Herbert Hoover Elementary School, Julia Ward Howe Elementary School, Thomas Jefferson Elementary School, Abraham Lincoln Elementary School, Edwin Markham Elementary School, Foster Elementary School, and George Washington Elementary School.
The district is funded by a combination of: a local earned income tax, a local real property tax, a real estate transfer tax, and a per capita tax, coupled with substantial funding from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the federal government.
In 2012, the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA) ranked Mt. Lebanon High School 6th (out of the 676 public high schools in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania) in regards to their combined math and reading test scores. Mt. Lebanon subsequently was ranked 1st in the Pittsburgh region.
In 2013, under the new guidelines established by the Pennsylvania Department of Education. the new accountability system for evaluating public schools, the School Performance Profile, ranked Mt. Lebanon High School 7th (out of 3004 Public, Charter, Cyber, and Magnet Schools), 3rd (of 678 High Schools), and 1st among Public Non-Charter, Non-Magnet High Schools in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Mt. Lebanon School District was ranked 2nd out of 105 western Pennsylvania school districts in 2009 by the Pittsburgh Business Times. The ranking was based on three years of student academic performance on the PSSAs on: math, reading, writing and one year of science. The school district ranked 2nd out of 105 western Pennsylvania school districts and 3rd out of 498 Pennsylvania school districts in 2008 in the Pittsburgh Business Times rating. In 2007, the district ranked 3rd of 500 Pennsylvania school districts for student achievement.
The district has won multiple National Blue Ribbon School awards. The high school was rated as one of the Top 500 high schools in the United States by Newsweek in 2000 and 1st in Western Pennsylvania by the Pittsburgh Business Times in 2005.
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