Ringgold School District
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400 Main Street New Eagle, Pennsylvania, Washington 15607 United States |
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| Type | Public |
| School board | 9 elected members |
| Superintendent | Karen Pokabla |
| Administrator | Deborah DiMascio, Supervisor of Special Education |
| Director | Jeff Matty, Assistant to the Superintendent |
| Grades | K-12 |
| Enrollment | 3170 (2009-10) |
| • Kindergarten | 205 |
| • Grade 1 | 254 |
| • Grade 2 | 214 |
| • Grade 3 | 211 |
| • Grade 4 | 233 |
| • Grade 5 | 209 |
| • Grade 6 | 261 |
| • Grade 7 | 243 |
| • Grade 8 | 234 |
| • Grade 9 | 272 |
| • Grade 10 | 280 |
| • Grade 11 | 291 |
| • Grade 12 | 263 |
| • Other | Projected to decline to 2800 by 2019 |
| Color(s) | navy blue and Vegas gold |
| Mascot | Ram |
| Team name | Rams |
| Website | http://www.ringgold.org/ |
Ringgold School District is a midsized, suburban, public school district located in the northeastern corner of Washington County, Pennsylvania, south of Pittsburgh. The district encompasses 58 square miles, including the city of Monongahela, the boroughs of Donora, New Eagle and Finleyville, and the townships of Carroll, Union, and Nottingham. According to 2000 federal census data, it served a resident population of 26,933. The area is a mix of Pittsburgh suburbia and rural areas.
Per District officials, in school year 2007-08 the Ringgold School District provided basic educational services to 3,290 pupils, while employing: 249 teachers, 176 full-time and part-time support personnel, and 19 administrators. Ringgold School District received more than $18.2 million in state funding in school year 2007-08.
The district includes a combination of two former high schools from the area. Monongahela and Donora both had their own junior and senior high schools. These building were sold in 2013 and no longer being used in the district. The current high school was built in 1979.
Ringgold School District operates four schools: Ringgold High School and Ringgold Elementary School South both in Carroll Township and Ringgold Middle School and Ringgold Elementary School North both in Union Township. There are also plans in place to build a new middle school adjacent to the high school on the same campus with construction slated to begin on November 2, 2015
Ringgold School District was ranked 378th out of the 498 ranked Pennsylvania school districts in 2011 by the Pittsburgh Business Times. The ranking was based on student academic performance as demonstrated in 5 years of PSSA results in: reading, writing, math and three years of science.
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