North Star School District

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**North Star School District**

District type	Public
Religious affiliation	None
Location	Boswell, Pennsylvania, USA
Enrollment 2005-2006	Approx. 1,400 students
Grades	K-12
District location	Rural
District Mascot	Cougar
District colors	Forest Green and White
Student/Teacher Ratio	13.9

The North Star School District in Boswell, Somerset County, Pennsylvania in the United States was formed in 1969 with the merger of predecssors Jenner-Boswell and Forbes school districts.

North Star High School and North Star Central Elementary are located in Boswell and North Star Middle School/East Elementary is located in Kantner (Quemahoning Township). North Star West Elementary School was located in Jennerstown and is now part of North Star Central in Boswell. The name North Star is taken from U.S. Route 219, the North Star Way, which runs through the District. That name for the highway has since fallen out of favor. The high school's mascot is the cougar and its colors are forest green and white.

The district includes the boroughs of Boswell, Stoystown, Jennerstown, and Hooversville and the townships Jenner and Quemahoning in Somerset County, Pennsylvania.

Joseph Darby , who in April 2004 The Pentagon credited as the lone soldier who came forward to halt and expose the Abu Ghraib prisoner-of-war abuse scandal in Baghdad, Iraq, is a graduate of North Star High School. Darby received the 2005 Profile in Courage Award from the John F. Kennedy Foundation.