Nazareth Area School District

Nazareth Area School District

District

Location of the Nazareth Area School District in Northampton County, Pennsylvania.

Nazareth Area School District is a public school district, located in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It serves the boroughs of Nazareth, , and Tatamy; as well as Bushkill, Lower Nazareth, and Upper Nazareth Townships. District enrollment for the 2010-2011 school year is about 4,500 students. The current superintendent of schools is Dr. Dennis L. Riker.

Due to population growth, the Nazareth Area School District constructed a new middle school for grades 7 and 8 (approximately 800 students). The project included a new $7 millionswimming pool. The new building is located on Freidenstahl Avenue in Upper Nazareth Township, adjacent to the high school campus. The school was completed in 2009 in time for the 2009-2010 school year. It cost an estimated total of $57 million.

With the opening of the new middle school in 2009, the Nazareth area underwent a district-wide grade reconfiguration. Grades Kindergarten through 3rd grade remained in the elementary schools. Grades 4, 5, and 6 were placed into a new intermediate level with all students in those grades attending the Nazareth Are Intermediate School, utilizing the former middle school building at 355 Tatamy Road. Grades 7 and 8 now attend the new middle school building. Only the high school, built in 1956, remains unaffected by the grade changes.

According to a 2006 survey distributed to every household in the Nazareth Area School District, with a 19% participation rate:

40.8% of responding households had NASD students, of those:

Attuned to the importance of parent and school communication, the district has established a Parent Web Portal, a web friendly, state-of-the-art communication tool on its website. School events and School Board meetings are posted on the district website calendar. News about the Nazareth Area School District is reported regularly in The Morning Call and The Express-Times newspapers. As of January, 2011, the Nazareth Area High School also began utilizing the 'Eagle Call' system, allowing students to receive text messages and e-mails directly on mobile devices and cell phones.