Parkland High School (Allentown, Pennsylvania)
| Parkland High School | |
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| Address | |
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2700 North Cedar Crest Boulevard Allentown, Pennsylvania 18104 United States |
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| Coordinates | 40°38′20″N 75°32′47″W / 40.6388°N 75.5465°WCoordinates: 40°38′20″N 75°32′47″W / 40.6388°N 75.5465°W |
| Information | |
| Type | Public high school |
| Established | 1949 |
| School district | Parkland School District |
| Superintendent | Richard T. Sniscak |
| Principal | James E. Moniz II |
| Grades | 9 - 12 |
| Enrollment | 3,222 |
| Color(s) |
Red Gray |
| Athletics conference | Eastern Pennsylvania Conference |
| Team name | Trojans |
| Newspaper | The Trumpet |
| Yearbook | Par Key |
| Website | Parkland High School |
Parkland High School is a public high school in Allentown, Pennsylvania that serves students in grades 9 to 12. It is the only high school for the Parkland School District. With 3,222 students in the 2016-2017 school year, Parkland is the largest high school in the Lehigh Valley.
Parkland High School was formed in 1949 when North Whitehall Township and South Whitehall Township merged to create Parkland Union School District, with Upper Macungie Township joining in 1950. Its predecessor, South Whitehall High School, was housed in the current-day Troxell Building. Parkland used the same facility until a larger building on Route 309 in Orefield was completed in 1954, which served as the high school for 45 years. In 1999, the new and current Parkland High School building on Cedar Crest Boulevard in Allentown was opened due to overcapacity of the second building. The old school was renovated and renamed Orefield Middle School, replacing Troxell Junior High School. When viewed from above, the layout of the current building and grounds closely approximate the shape of the Millennium Falcon, a spacecraft featured in the Star Wars films. School officials claim that the design was not deliberate.
Parkland High School was ranked as the number one high school in the Lehigh Valley by standardized test scores for the year 2013.
Parkland has numerous musical groups, including a dance team, orchestral ensembles, choral groups, a concert band, jazz band, marching band, indoor colorguard, and indoor drumline.
Parkland High School's spring musical participates in the Freddy Awards., an award show created to recognize and reward exceptional accomplishments in the production and performance of musical theater in high schools in Lehigh and Northampton Counties, Pennsylvania, and Warren County, New Jersey. Parkland High School is the only school that has been nominated for Outstanding Overall Performance of a Musical every year of the Freddy Awards.
Parkland competes in the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference in District XI of the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association. Cumulatively among all of its sports, Parkland has secured fourteen Pennsylvania state championship titles.
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