Warren County School District
| Warren County School District | |
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185 Hospital Drive Warren, Pennsylvania, Warren County 16365 United States |
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| Information | |
| Type | Public |
| Superintendent | Dr. William Clark |
| Enrollment | 5143 pupils enrolled in 2010 |
| • Kindergarten | 317 |
| • Grade 1 | 362 |
| • Grade 2 | 357 |
| • Grade 3 | 386 |
| • Grade 4 | 404 |
| • Grade 5 | 367 |
| • Grade 6 | 412 |
| • Grade 7 | 384 |
| • Grade 8 | 403 |
| • Grade 9 | 400 |
| • Grade 10 | 423 |
| • Grade 11 | 466 |
| • Grade 12 | 462 |
| • Other | Enrollment projected to decline to 4607 pupils in 2020. |
| Website | http://www.wcsdpa.org/ |
The Warren County School District (WCSD) is a public school district in Warren County, Pennsylvania, and it is designed to encompass all but three county municipalities. It has four attendance areas: North, East, West and Central. Warren County School District encompasses approximately 792 square miles. According to 2000 federal census data, it serves a resident population of 40,689. In 2009, the residents' per capita income was $17,898, while median family income was $42,714. In the Commonwealth, the median family income was $49,501 and the United States median family income was $49,445, in 2010. Per school district officials, in school year 2005–06, the Warren County School District provided basic educational services to 5,552 pupils through the employment of 474 teachers, 302 full-time and part-time support personnel, and 28 administrators. The Warren County School District received more than $33 million in state funding in school year 2005–06.
All WCSD schools are working on school improvement plans. Every school has a School Improvement Team.
Warren County School District was ranked 328th out of 498 Pennsylvania school districts, in 2011, by the Pittsburgh Business Times. The ranking was based on five years of student academic performance based on the PSSAs for: reading, writing, math and three years of science.
In 2009, the academic achievement, of the students in the Warren County School District, was in the 32nd percentile among all 500 Pennsylvania school districts Scale (0–99; 100 is state best)
In 2011, the Warren County School District - district wide graduation rate was 87%. In 2010, the Pennsylvania Department of Education issued a new, 4-year cohort graduation rate. Warren County School District's rate was 84% for 2010.
According to a Pennsylvania Department of Education study released in January 2009, 17% of Warren County School District graduates required remediation in mathematics and or reading before they were prepared to take college level courses in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education or community colleges. Less than 66% of Pennsylvania high school graduates, who enroll in a four-year college in Pennsylvania, will earn a bachelor's degree within six years. Among Pennsylvania high school graduates pursuing an associate degree, only one in three graduate in three years. Per the Pennsylvania Department of Education, one in three recent high school graduates who attend Pennsylvania's public universities and community colleges takes at least one remedial course in math, reading or English.
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