Manheim Township School District | |
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Type and location | |
Country | United States |
Location | Lancaster County Pennsylvania |
District Info | |
Students and staff | |
Students | over 5,000 |
Colors | Blue and White |
Other information | |
Website | Manheim Township School District |
Manheim Township School District is a suburban, public school district of over 5,000 students in nine schools located in Manheim Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The district is well known in the Lancaster County region for its academic achievement, popular quiz bowl team, and performing arts group. The district draws students from a single eponymous township of approximately 23 square miles (60 km2), with over 13,400 residential dwellings, and about 31,300 residents as of 2006. The district's public school population of over 5,000 students in kindergarten through twelfth grades is distributed over nine school buildings: there are six elementary schools (grades K-5), a single 6th-grade building, one middle school (grades 7 & 8), and one high school (grades 9-12). The district students are 81% white, 7% asian, 4% black and 8% Hispanic.[1] The district's high school is currently undergoing new construction. The district budget in 2005 was over $57,000,000.
The district's colors are blue and white. A traditional rival of the district is Hempfield.
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Manheim Township School District was ranked 39th out of 498 Pennsylvania school districts in 2010 by the Pittsburgh Business Times. The ranking was based on student academic performance based on the PSSAs for: reading, writing, math and two years of science.[2]
In 2009, the academic achievement, of the students in the Manheim Township School District, was in the 85th percentile among all 500 Pennsylvania school districts Scale (0-99; 100 is state best)[4]
In 2010, the Pennsylvania Department of Education issued a new, 4 year cohort graduation rate. Manheim Township High School's rate was 94% for 2010.[5]
According to traditional graduation rate calculations:
According to a Pennsylvania Department of Education study released in January 2009, 29% of Manheim Township High School 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.[15] 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.[16]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.
The high school offers the Pennsylvania Dual Enrollment program. This state program permits high school students to take courses, at local higher education institutions, to earn college credits. The students continue to have full access to activities and programs at their high school. The college credits are offered at a deeply discounted rate. The state offers a small grant to assist students in costs for tuition, fees and books.[17] Under the Pennsylvania Transfer and Articulation Agreement, many Pennsylvania colleges and universities accept these credits for students who transfer to their institutions.[18] The Pennsylvania College Credit Transfer System reported in 2009, that students saved nearly $35.4 million by having their transferred credits count towards a degree under the new system.[19]
In 2010, the district received a $2,379 state grant to be used to assist students with tuition, fees and books. The grant program was discontinued in 2011, but the dual enrollment program remains available.
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Pennsylvania System of School Assessment 2005-2006 PSSA proficiency levels for Lancaster County schools |
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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 |