Elizabethtown Area School District

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Map of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Public School Districts. Elizabethtown Area School District is in pink in the North-West corner of the county.
Map of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Public School Districts. Elizabethtown Area School District is in pink in the North-West corner of the county.
2006 SAT: average scores
Lancaster County schools
School District Reading Math Writing Total
Cocalico 473 489 467 1429
Columbia Borough 445 435 419 1299
Conestoga Valley 505 513 501 1519
Donegal 511 531 490 1532
Eastern Lancaster County 506 521 494 1521
Elizabethtown Area 501 520 490 1511
Ephrata Area 488 498 472 1458
Hempfield 522 565 505 1592
Lampeter-Strasburg 522 527 501 1550
Lancaster 449 448 448 1316
Manheim Central 503 520 491 1517
Manheim Township 547 565 535 1647
Penn Manor 492 513 474 1479
Pequea Valley 505 508 481 1494
Solanco 506 516 482 1504
Warwick 527 527 509 1563
County average 500 512 484 1496
Pennsylvania average 493 500 483 1476
U.S. average 503 518 497 1518
Possible on each test: 800 points
Source: "Blame it on fried brains",
September 21, 2006 Lancaster New Era

The Elizabethtown Area School District is a school district in the Northwest corner of suburban Lancaster County, Pennsylvania that serves Elizabethown Borough and the townships of Conoy, and West Donegal, as well as the North and West part of Mount Joy Township. It is a member of Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit (IU) 13.

Schools in the Elizabethtown Area School District include:

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[edit] National/State Recognition

The high school has won state championships in field hockey in 1974, baseball in 1993 .[citation needed] The district's Quiz Bowl Team was national runner up at the 2004 National Academic Championship.[citation needed]

[edit] District profile

  • As of the census[1] of 2000
    • District Population: 27,485 people
    • District Area: 56.0 sq. miles
  • School Colors - Blue and White
  • District Mascot - Elizabethtown Bears
  • School Nickname - "E-Town"
  • Member of the Lancaster-Lebanon 2 Sports League
  • Its band is one of the biggest bands in the whole state. It has over 200 members.

[edit] Comparison to other Lancaster County school districts

Pennsylvania System of School Assessment
2005-2006 PSSA proficiency levels for Lancaster County schools
School District 3-5 Reading 3-5 Math 6-8 Reading 6-8 Math 9-12 Reading 9-12 Math
Cocalico[1] 67.7% 83.3% 82.7% 79.7% 63.4% 51.7%
Columbia Borough[2] 64.0% 71.1% 66.1% 56.9% 47.7% 25.2%
Conestoga Valley[3] 71.3% 82.1% 76.9% 75.5% 75.7% 68.0%
Donegal[4] 63.0% 69.2% 70.0% 62.1% 70.7% 57.2%
Eastern Lancaster County[5] 69.6% 84.0% 84.2% 78.8% 73.6% 58.4%
Elizabethtown Area[6] 70.6% 81.4% 80.9% 76.9% 72.1% 64.4%
Ephrata Area[7] 67.7% 82.8% 81.1% 71.0% 61.4% 65.0%
Hempfield[8] 80.3% 80.0% 81.3% 79.7% 75.7% 73.4%
Lampeter-Strasburg[9] 83.6% 83.0% 90.0% 84.2% 78.6% 70.1%
Lancaster[10] 45.6% 59.8% 46.5% 42.4% 41.5% 31.2%
Manheim Central[11] 72.1% 79.1% 77.9% 66.8% 74.2% 62.3%
Manheim Township[12] 80.1% 86.9% 90.4% 82.6% 82.7% 76.1%
Penn Manor[13] 70.8% 82.0% 78.3% 73.5% 78.1% 71.0%
Pequea Valley[14] 73.8% 83.9% 68.0% 70.1% 72.8% 56.5%
Solanco[15] 77.7% 83.9% 80.5% 75.1% 73.1% 54.6%
Warwick[16] 71.4% 83.0% 77.5% 75.1% 76.1% 62.5%
In some cases, 2 (or even 3) years were aggregated by Pennsylvania Department of Education

[edit] References

  1. ^ American FactFinder. United States Census Bureau. Retrieved on 2008-01-31.

[edit] External links