Southeast Delco School District | |
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Address | |
1560 Delmar Drive Folcroft, Pennsylvania 19032-0328 United States |
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Type | Public |
School board | 9 locally elected members |
Superintendent | Stephen Butz, M'Ed ($165,000 in 2012) |
School number | (610) 522-4300 |
Faculty | 293 teacher (2010) |
Grades | PreK-12 |
Age | 5 years old to 21 years old special education |
Pupils | 4051 pupils(2010–11) |
• Kindergarten | 351 |
• Grade 1 | 367 |
• Grade 2 | 336 |
• Grade 3 | 337 |
• Grade 4 | 346 |
• Grade 5 | 290 |
• Grade 6 | 332 |
• Grade 7 | 328 |
• Grade 8 | 307 |
• Grade 9 | 311 |
• Grade 10 | 310 |
• Grade 11 | 294 |
• Grade 12 | 261 |
• Other | Enrollment projected to be 5300 in 2019 |
Budget | $64,303,936. (2012–13) $61.8 million (2011–12) |
Tuition | for nonresident and charter school students ES - $10,882.03, HS - $8,656.69 |
Per Pupil Spending | $14,248 (2008) |
Per pupil Spending | $13,851.36 (2010) |
Website | http://www.sedelco.org/site/default.aspx?PageID=1 |
Southeast Delco School District is a midsized, regional suburban public school district located in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The District encompasses approximately 10 km² (4 square miles). It serves the residents of Collingdale, Darby Township, Folcroft, and Sharon Hill. The district is adjacent to the City of Philadelphia. The District was created from the merging of smaller, local school districts. According to 2000 federal census data, it served a resident population of 30,732. In 2009, the district residents’ per capita income was $17,418, while the median family income was $47,321. In the Commonwealth, the median family income was $49,501 and the United States median family income was $49,445, in 2010. According to District officials, in school year 2007–08 the Southeast Delco School District provided basic educational services to 4,123 pupils through the employment of 317 teachers, 279 full-time and part-time support personnel, and 28 administrators. Southeast Delco School District received more than $20.6 million in state funding in school year 2007- 08.
The school district is governed by 9 individually elected board members (serve four-year terms), the Pennsylvania State Board of Education, the Pennsylvania Department of Education and the Pennsylvania General Assembly. The federal government controls programs it funds like Title I funding for low-income children in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and the No Child Left Behind Act, which mandates the district focus resources on student success in acquiring reading and math skills.