Seneca Valley school district
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| Seneca Valley school district | |
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| Proud of the Past, Committed to the Future | |
| Established | unknown |
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| School type | public |
| Locale | southwestern Butler County, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Grades | K-12 |
| Superintendent | Donald J. Tylinski, Ed.D. |
| Location | Harmony, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Enrollment | 7,575 |
| Faculty | 900 |
| Athletics | baseball, basketball, boys and girls, cheerleading, cross country, coed, football, golf, boys and girls, lacrosse, girls, soccer, boys and girls, softball, girls, tennis, boys ang girls, track and field, coed, volleyball, boys and girls |
| Colors | light blue and black |
| Mascot | Native American brave |
| Website | http://www.svsd.net/ |
The Seneca Valley School District serves southwest Butler County, Pennsylvania.
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[edit] Elementary Schools
Each elementary school within Seneca Valley school district contains special education, art, music, physical education, library, technology, speech, hearing impaired, guidance, and instructional support facilities as well as five or six classrooms for each grade, with an average of twenty-five to thirty students per class.
[edit] Connoquenessing Valley Elementary School
- Connoquenessing Valley Elementary School (C.V.E.) serves Zelienople, PA and its outlying regions, including Harmony, PA. The school is locted on 300 Pittsburgh Street in Zelienople, PA.
- Recently, the school participated in Random Acts of Kindness Week, where students collected money for Relay for Life. A courtyard has been cleaned up near the school by students and volunteers. Also, the school has been visited by noted children's illustrator and graphic design professor Scott Nash.
[edit] Evans City Elementary School
- Evans City Elementary School serves Evans City, PA and its outlying regions, including Forward Township and Callery, PA. The school is located on 345 Rear West Main Street (PA Route 68) in Evans City, PA and shares a building with Evans City Middle School.
- The school boasts an active Parent-Teacher Organization (PTO), as well as outstanding community involvement. The school hosts many fund-raising activities yearly, including a book fair and craft show.
[edit] Haine Elementary School
- Haine Elementary School serves southwestern Cranberry Township, PA. The school is located on 1516 Haine School Road in Cranberry Township, PA and shares a building with Haine Middle School.
- Haine Elementary School recently received two Keystone Awards from the Pennsylvania Department of Education for Meeting Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) in two consecutive years for its students' results on the statewide PSSA testing. The school also boasts an active and involved Parent-Teacher Organization (PTO).
[edit] Rowan Elementary School
- Rowan Elementary School serves northeastern Cranberry Township, PA. The school is located on 8051 Rowan Road in Cranberry Township, PA.
[edit] Middle Schools
[edit] Grades 5-6
These middle schools were created with the intention of adjusting elementary students to high school. The schools use a "team-teaching" approach wherein students will have a classroom to which they are assigned, and the entire class will move to a different room for different classes such as science, math, or social studies. While the students stay with their same class, they experience changing teachers and changing classes for the first time.
[edit] Evans City Middle School
- Evans City Middle School serves students who attended Evans City Elementary School or Connoquenessing Valley Elementary School. The school is located on 345A Rear West Main Street (PA Route 68) in Evans City, PA and shares a building with Evans City Elementary School.
- The school's facilities include the "Little Creek Nature Trail," built by staff, students, and volunteers. Evans City Middle School has extensive involvement from its Parent-Teacher Organization (PTO) and local police who provide a D.A.R.E. program to its students.
[edit] Haine Middle School
- Haine Middle School serves students who attended Haine Elementary School or Rowan Elementary School and is located on 1516A Haine School Road and shares a building with Haine Elementary School.
- The school has an active Parent-Teacher Organization (PTO) which organizes events such as career fairs annually. The school also hosts its own PRIDE team, which organizes cleanups of the school's campus by its students.
[edit] Grades 7-8
[edit] Seneca Valley Middle School
- Seneca Valley Middle School serves all students within the district and is located on the main campus in Harmony, PA.
- The middle school is set up to adjust students further into high school life. While students freely change classes as in an American high school, five of their eight daily classes are all with teachers who teach on a team. These five teachers teach the same set of students on a "team" so that students will have classes with the same group of students and not have to deal with stresses on the same day, missing many classes for field trips, and so on. These teams also act as a microcasm of hte high school atmosphere, instilling their own 'team spirit' on students and hosting team parties.
- In recent times, the school has won many awards, most notably the 2005-06 Don Eicchorn Award for Middle School Excellence, recognizing it as one of the best middle schools in the state and the Keystone Award for Annually Yearly Progress on the PSSA. Induvidual teachers and teams have received numerous prestigious awards as well. Students have won awards for many activities within the school, including notable awards by the academic games team and consistent high performance by the school's choir.
- The school offers a choir program, a student band, an option to learn foreign languages, classes in performing arts, and classes in various mediums of design. In addition, seventh grade students are required to take one term of each French, Spanish, Latin, and German intended as an introduction. Eighth grade students are required to take six weeks of three different home economics courses and six weeks of three different industrial shop classes.
- The school recognizes many sports which compete amongst each other or against different schools. These sports include boys' and girls' basketball, cheerleading, cross country, football, boys' and girls' soccer, softball, swimming, table tennis, and wrestling. Competitive and non-competitive clubs include academic games, art club, chess and checkers club, computer club, environmental club, helping hands club, library club, newspaper, sportsman's club, video club, weight lifting club, word games club, and yearbook. The school provides bus transportation at 4:30 on most days and 5:45 on all days to facilitate participation in after-school activities.
[edit] High Schools
The middle school, intermediate high school, and senior high school are located together on one main campus in Harmony, Pennsylvania.
The high schools are part of an 'open campus' system wherein students may on occasion have a class in a building they are not assigned to by grade and must walk to their class in the other building. The high schools also share most extracurricular activities and ensembles such as the band.
[edit] Seneca Valley Intermediate High School
- Seneca Valley Intermediate High School (IHS) serves all students within the district and is located on the main campus in Harmony, PA.
- The IHS includes facilities such as an a planetarium, large auditorium, gymnasium, pool, weight room, music rooms, art rooms, and many biology and chemistry labs. A courtyard has been updated and facilitated within the school and is available to students.
- The IHS publishes its own newspaper, the Raider Rumble.
- A wide variety of classes are offered to students within the IHS, mostly from students in 9th or 10th grade, though 11th and 12th grade students take classes within the building as well.
- Seneca Valley Intermediate High School was ranked third to last in Western Pennsylvania as of March 2005.
[edit] Seneca Valley Senior High School
- Seneca Valley Senior High School serves all students within the district and is located on the main campus in Harmony, PA.
- Currently, the senior high school is undergoing a major renovation which will provide it with more facilities.
- The senior high school's facilities include a small auditorium, gymnasium, music rooms, art rooms, industrial technology facilities, home economics facilities, special education facilities, and many science laboratories.
- The Senior High School hosts a student-run daycare, publishes a literary magazine called the Raider Review, and a monthly newspaper.
- In 2005, an undercover narcotics detective posed as a student at Seneca Valley. The investigation lead to the identification and arrest of multiple drug suppliers. Source
[edit] School Spirit
The school teams are called the Raiders or Lady Raiders. The school's logo is an indian brave's head, and the mascot is an indian brave. The school's colors are Carolina blue, black, and white.
[edit] Music Education
The schools have active and successful bands and choirs as well.
[edit] Bands
- Music education begins in the window from fourth to sixth grade. The school offers instruction for most brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments.
- In Seneca Valley Middle School, students have the option of continuing band. The school offers a separate se Band takes place for three periods a week, opposite of a student's gym class. The band is divided for two days of the week into two smaller groups, which pratice together on Fridays.
- Students take freshman band their freshman year. In grades 10-12, students can become either a member of the symphonic band or the audition-only wind ensemble.
- Students who play applicable instruments and demonstrate skill may be members of one of the school's two jazz ensembles, Jazz Ensemble 1 and Jazz Ensemble 2. Jazz Ensemble 1 is generally the higher-performing band. In 2003, the Jazz Ensemble recorded an album entitled "No Shoes Required".
- The school's marching band is very successful and very large. The marching band has performed in the Orange Bowl, at a Buffalo Bills game, and has brought home many awards from competition. The marching band includes pom pons, colorguard, [[majorette|majorettes], and drum majors, as well as musicians. Usually, the marching band contains a student-run group consisting of three trumpets, four horns, three tubas, and three trombones called the "matadors". The school's drumline also performs their sideline cadences for the crowd and occasionally has one of their own dance to a song called "Wild Thing"
- The school also has a tryout saxophone quintet which has, in the past, performed for commercials and special events held by the school.
[edit] Other Band Opportunities
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- Students from Seneca Valley often participate in the RCYBB (River City Youth Brass Band) which rehearses at Carnegie-Mellon University and YSYO (Youngstown State Youth Orchestra) which rehearses at Youngstown State University.
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- Yearly tryouts for District 5, Region 1 Honors Band are available to Seneca Valley students. Seneca Valley students usually do quite well in the tryouts for this band.
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- District Band is another option that combines school districts' best students into one band. However, the number of students who may attend this band is determined from the school's size. From this band, students may be sent to State Band.
[edit] Choirs
[edit] All-School Musical
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- The school's all-school spring musical usually has an award-winning performance. The most recent musical was Seussical in 2006, which merited many Mancini awards.
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- Students run the musical, including not only performers from the elementary and high schools, but also stage crew, tech crew, SVTV, house management, publicity, pit band, makeup, and many other crews.
[edit] Other Music Education
- In elementary school, once every six days, a student's class takes an elementary music class where students learn basics about music. In seventh grade, students are required to take a semester-long music class which continues with some history of music and how to read music.
- Other classes offered on music by the school district are keyboarding and music theory.
[edit] Athletics
The sports sponsored by the school district are girls' and boys' swimming and diving, girls' softball, boys' baseball, girls' and boys' track and field, girls' and boys' cross country, girls' and boys' tennis, football, cheerleading, girls' lacrosse, girls' and boys' tennis, and wrestling.
Club sports include boys' hockey and boys' lacrosse.
The district sold the naming rights of their football stadium; they will get $50,000 over 10 years to rename Raider Stadium as NexTier Stadium, after NexTier Bank. The stadium, which seats 2,000, was formerly known as Seneca Valley Field.
Other athletic facilities on campus include a 400 meter track with throwing and jumping pits, a baseball field, a softball field, several practice fields, a cross country trail, two gymnasiums, a natatorium, two weight rooms, and tennis courts. The school also provides some medical facilities and staffs trainers in case of injury.
