North Penn School District | |
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North Penn School District is in blue in the Northeast Central part of the county.
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401 E Hancock St Lansdale, Pennsylvania, Montgomery County, Bucks County, 19446 19446-3960 United States |
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Type | Public |
School board | 9 locally elected members |
Superintendent | Curt Dietrich |
Faculty | 917 teachers |
Grades | K-12 |
Age | 5 years old to 21 years old for special ed. |
Enrollment | 1 |
Pupils | 2,684 (2009-10) |
• Kindergarten | 757 |
• Grade 1 | 871 |
• Grade 2 | 927 |
• Grade 3 | 888 |
• Grade 4 | 976 |
• Grade 5 | 1035 |
• Grade 6 | 966 |
• Grade 7 | 1047 |
• Grade 8 | 990 |
• Grade 9 | 1028 |
• Grade 10 | 997 |
• Grade 11 | 995 |
• Grade 12 | 1019 |
• Other | Enrollment projected to be 11,284 in 2019 |
Language | English |
Hours in school day | 6.5 |
Colour(s) | blue and dark blue |
Mascot | Knight |
Team name | Knights |
Tuition | for nonresident and charter school students ES - $11,406.17, HS - $12,737.51 |
Per pupil Spending | $14,189 (2008) |
Per Pupil Spending | $14,820.87 |
Website | http://www.npenn.org/northpennsd/site/default.asp |
The North Penn School District is a large, suburban, regional public school district that consists of thirteen elementary schools, three middle schools, and one high school. It serves the North Penn Valley, a 42-square-mile (110 km2) area in the Montgomery County suburbs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The district serves the municipalities of North Wales Borough, Lansdale Borough, Hatfield Borough, Upper Gwynedd Township, Towamencin Township, Montgomery Township, and Hatfield Township. The Montgomeryville census-designated place is located in the district.
A small portion of Bucks County known as Line Lexington is also contained in the North Penn School District.
The district was created by merging smaller, local districts in 1956. North Penn High School is today one of the largest traditional public high schools in Pennsylvania. The district enrollment for the 2006-2007 school year was 12,993. The district offers advanced placement curriculum and English as a second language.