Riverview School District (Pennsylvania)

Riverview School District
Address
701 10th Street
Oakmont, Pennsylvania, Allegheny, 15139
United States
Information
Superintendent Dr. Charles P. Erdeljac
School number 412-828-1800
Administrator Mrs. Lynn Black, Director of Student Achievement
Susan C. Wiegand, Director of Special Education
Grades K-12
Gender Coed
Kindergarten 128
Grade 1 113
Grade 2 106
Grade 3 124
Grade 4 108
Grade 5 107
Grade 6 114
Grade 7 125
Grade 8 132
Grade 9 105
Grade 10 125
Grade 11 118
Grade 12 103
Other Enrollment projected to be 1725 by 2020 [1]
Average class size 20-30
Graduates 100
Website http://www.rsd.k12.pa.us/rsd/site/default.asp

The Riverview School District is a small, suburban public school district serving the Pittsburgh suburbs or Oakmont, Pennsylvania and Verona, Pennsylvania. Riverview School District encompasses approximately 2 square miles. According to 2000 federal census data, it serves a resident population of 10,035. In 2009, the district residents' per capita income was $23,343, while the median family income was $50,307. [2] Per District officials, in school year 2007-08, the Riverview School District provided basic educational services to 1,167 pupils. In 2008, Riverview School District employed 109 teachers, 51 full-time and part-time support personnel, and 9 administrators for the 2007- 2008 school year. Riverview School District received more than $4.8 million in state funding in school year 2007-08.

The district features three schools: Riverview Jr-Sr High School (7th-12th), 10th Street Elementary School (K-6th), and Verner Elementary (K-6th). [3]

Contents

Academic achievement

In 2011, Riverview School District was ranked 127th out of the 498 ranked Pennsylvania School Districts by the Pittsburgh Business Times. The ranking is based on five years of student academic achievement as demonstrated by PSSAs results in reading, writing, math and three years of science. [4]

In 2009, the academic achievement, of the students in the Riverview School District, was in the 71st percentile among all 500 Pennsylvania school districts. Scale (0-99; 100 is state best) [9]

Graduation rate

In 2010, the Pennsylvania Department of Education issued a new, 4 year cohort graduation rate. Riverview School District's rate was 88% for 2010. [10]

According to traditional graduation rate calculations:

High School

In 2009 and 2010, the high school achieved AYP status. [14] Provides grades 7-12th.

The high school ranked 65th out of 123 western Pennsylvania high schools, by the Pittsburgh Business Times in 2009, for academic achievement as reflected by three years of 11th grade results on: math, reading, writing and one year of science PSSAs.[15]

PSSA Results: 11th Grade Reading

11th Grade Math:

11th Grade Science:

College Remediation: According to a Pennsylvania Department of Education study released in January 2009, 37% of Riverview 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. [23] 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.[24] 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.

Graduation requirements

The Riverview School Board has established that a student must earn 26.5 credits, in order to graduate, including: English 4.5 credits, Social Studies 3 credits, Math 3 credits, Science 3.5 credits, Physical education 1.6 credits, Health 0.6 credits, Arts and Humanities 3 credits and electives 5.8 credits. Students who fail required subjects must attend summer school or repeat the course the following academic year. [25]

By law, all Pennsylvania secondary school students must complete a project as a part of their eligibility to graduate from high school. The type of project, its rigor and its expectations are set by the individual school district.[26] At Riverview High School students engage in a senior transition project that focuses on careers called Shadow Study. [27] Students earn 0.5 credits towards graduation upon completing the project.

By Pennsylvania School Board regulations, beginning with the graduating classes 2016, students must demonstrate successful completion of secondary level course work in Algebra I, Biology, English Composition, and Literature for which the Keystone Exams serve as the final course exams. Students’ Keystone Exam scores shall count for at least one-third of the final course grade.[28] The district is rewriting the Biology course t assure that students will be prepared to pass the exam.

Junior High School

8th Grade Reading

8th Grade Math:

8th Grade Science:

7th Grade Reading

7th Grade Math:

Special Education

In December 2009, the district administration reported that 164 pupils or 14.9% of the district's pupils received Special Education services. [34]

In 2010, the state of Pennsylvania provided $1,026,815,000 for Special Education services. The funds were distributed to districts based on a state policy which estimates that 16% of the district's pupils are receiving special education services. This funding is in addition to the state's basic education per pupil funding, as well as, all other state and federal funding.[35]

Identification activities are performed to find a child who is suspected as having a disability that would interfere with his or her learning unless special education programs and services are made available. These screening activities include: a review of group data, conducting hearing and vision screening, assessment of student's academic functioning, observation of the student displaying difficulty in behavior and determining the student's response to attempted remediation. Input from parents is also an information source for identification. Parents of school age children may request an evaluation by contacting the Coordinator of Special Education. Students identified as eligible for special education are entitled to a Free Appropriate Public Education at no cost to parents. Services designed to meet the needs of eligible students include the annual development of an Individualized Education Program (IEP), a triennial re-evaluation, and special education services inside or outside of the district's regular education classroom. [36]

Riverview School District received a $633,420 supplemental funding to pay for special education services for its students, in 2010.[37]

For the 2011-12 school year, all Pennsylvania public school districts received the same level of funding for special education that they received in 2010. This level funding is provided regardless of changes in the number of pupils who need special education services and regardless of the level of services the respective students required. [38]

Bullying and school safety

In 2011, the Riverview Junior/Senior High School was awarded $2500, by The Highmark Foundation, for their efforts in implementing bullying prevention in their school at an exemplary level. [39] Riverview Junior/Senior High School implemented the PA CARES (Creating an Atmosphere of Respect and Environment for Success) program. The program utilizes the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program standards and techniques.

The Riverview School District administration reported there were six incidents of bullying in the district in the 2009-10 school year. There were 21 incidents of a fighting. [40] [41]

The Riverview School Board has provided the district's antibully policy online.[42] All Pennsylvania schools are required to have an anti-bullying policy incorporated into their Code of Student Conduct. The policy must identify disciplinary actions for bullying and designate a school staff person to receive complaints of bullying. The policy must be available on the school's website and posted in every classroom. All Pennsylvania public schools must provide a copy of its anti-bullying policy to the Office for Safe Schools every year, and shall review their policy every three years. Additionally, the district must conduct an annual review of that policy with students.[43] The Center for Schools and Communities works in partnership with the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime & Delinquency and the Pennsylvania Department of Education to assist schools and communities as they research, select and implement bullying prevention programs and initiatives.[44]

Education standards relating to student safety and antiharassment programs are described in the 10.3. Safety and Injury Prevention in the Pennsylvania Academic Standards for Health, Safety and Physical Education. [45]

Budget

In 2009, the district reports employing over 120 teachers with a starting salary of $38,250 for 182 days for pupil instruction and a 194 days. [46] The average teacher salary was $56,643 while the maximum salary is $142,398. [47] As of 2007, Pennsylvania ranked in the top 10 states in average teacher salaries. When adjusted for cost of living Pennsylvania ranked fourth in the nation for teacher compensation. [48] The school day is limited by the union contract to 7.37 hours including a 30 minute, duty free, paid lunch break. Additionally, Riverview School District teachers receive a defined benefit pension, health insurance, life insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, long term disability insurance, professional development reimbursement, 3 paid personal days, 10 sick days (which accumulate), paid bereavement leave and other benefits. The union receives 8 paid days for attending union conventions. Union pays for a substitute for union leave time. Teachers are paid extra when they are required to work outside of the regular school day hours. [49] According to State Rep. Glen Grell, a trustee of the Pennsylvania Public School Employees’ Retirement System Board, a 40-year educator can retire with a pension equal to 100 percent of their final salary.[50]

In 2007, the district employed 99 teachers. The average teacher salary in the district was $50,301 for 180 school days worked.[51]

Riverview School District administrative costs per pupil in 2008 was $1,123.65 per pupil. The district is ranked 36th out of 500 in Pennsylvania for administrative spending. The lowest administrative cost per pupil in Pennsylvania was $398 per pupil.[52] The Pennsylvania School Boards Association keeps statistics on salaries of public school district employees in Pennsylvania. According to the association, the average salary for a superintendent for the 2007-08 school year was $122,165. [53]

In 2008, Riverview School District reported spending $14,080 per pupil. This ranked 101st in the commonwealth.[54]

In 2008, the Deer Lakes School District reported an unreserved designated fund balance of zero and a unreserved-undesignated fund balance of $2,080,456.00. [55]

The district is funded by a combination of: a local earned income tax, a property tax, a real estate transfer tax 0.5%, grants, coupled with substantial funding from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the federal government. In Pennsylvania, pension income and social security income are exempt from Pennsylvania personal income tax and local earned income tax, regardless of the level of income.[56]

State basic education funding

In 2011-12, the district will receive $2,788,686 in state Basic Education Funding. [57] Additionally, the Riverview School District district will receive $49,349 in Accountability Block Grant funding. The enacted Pennsylvania state Education budget includes $5,354,629,000 for the 2011-2012 Basic Education Funding appropriation. This amount is a $233,290,000 increase (4.6%) over the enacted State appropriation for 2010-2011. The highest increase in state basic education funding was awarded to Duquesne City School District which received an over 49% increase. [58]

According to the Pennsylvania Department of Education, 336 students in the Riverview School District received free or reduced lunches due to low family income in the 2009-2010 school year.[59]

For the 2010-11 school year the state provided a 2% increase in basic education funding to the district for a total of $2,844,460.[60] Among Allegheny County public school districts the highest increase was allotted to South Fayette Township School District which received an 11.32% increase in 2010. In Pennsylvania, 150 school districts received a 2% base increase. The highest increase in Pennsylvania was given to Kennett Consolidated School District in Chester County which was given a 23.65% increase. The amount of increase each school district receives is determined by the Governor and the Secretary of Education through the allocation made in the budget proposal made in February each year.[61]

In the 2009-2010 budget year the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania provided a 2% increase in Basic Education funding for a total of $2,844,460. Four county school districts received increases of over 6% in Basic Education Funding in 2009-10. Chartiers Valley School District received an 8.17% increase. The majority of Allegheny County districts received a 2% increase. In Pennsylvania, over 15 school districts received Basic Education Funding increases in excess of 10% in 2009. Muhlenberg School District in Berks County received the highest with a 22.31% increase in funding. The state's Basic Education Funding to the Riverview School District in 2008-09 was $2,788,686.46 [62]

According to the Pennsylvania Department of Education, 358 students received free or reduced lunches due to low family income in the 2007-2008 school year. [63]

Accountability Block Grants

Beginning in 2004-2005, the state launched the Accountability Block Grant school funding. This program has provided $1.5 billion to Pennsylvania’s school districts. The Accountability Block Grant program requires that its taxpayer dollars are focused on specific interventions that are most likely to increase student academic achievement. These interventions include: teacher training, All Day Kindergarten, lower class size K-3rd grade, literacy and math coaching programs that provide teachers with individualized job-embedded professional development to improve their instruction, before or after school tutoring assistance to struggling students. For 2010-11, the Riverview School District applied for and received $133,945 in addition to all other state and federal funding. The district used the funding to provide all day kindergarten for the 7th year. [64][65]

Classrooms for the Future Grant

Riverview School Board received a grant, from the PA Department of Education, to purchase equipment to help reform the high school's core subjects instruction and to prepare students for future employment by using cutting-edge equipment and software. The district used the funds to purchase laptops for students, laptops for teachers, laptop carts and other digital equipment. The grant provided additional funding for a technology coach to instruct teachers in using the equipment to improve instruction. In 2006-07 the district received $90,683. In 2007-08, the district received $250,000 in Classroom For the Future funding. In 2008-09, the district did not apply again. [66] Beginning in 2006, Pennsylvania's Classrooms for the Future program distributed more than $150 million for laptops, interactive boards and other high-tech tools to 543 Pennsylvania high schools. In 2009, the Classrooms For the Future funding program was terminated due to a deep state revenue shortfall. [67]

Common Cents state initiative

The school board chose to not participate in the Pennsylvania Department of Education Common Cents program. The program called for the state to audit the district, at no cost to local taxpayers, to identify ways the district could save tax dollars. [68] After the review of the information, the district was not required to implement the recommended cost savings changes.

Federal Stimulus Grant

The district received an extra $977,109 in ARRA - Federal Stimulus money to be used in specific programs like special education and meeting the academic needs of low income students. [69] The funding is for 2009-10 and 2010-2011 school years.

Race to the Top grant

Riverview School District officials applied for the Race to the Top federal grant which would have brought the district hundreds of thousands of additional federal dollars for improving student academic achievement. [70] Participation required the administration, the school board and the local teachers' union to sign an agreement to prioritize improving student academic success. [71] In Pennsylvania, 120 public school districts and 56 charter schools agreed to participate.[72] Pennsylvania was not approved for the grant. The failure of districts to agree to participate was cited as one reason that Pennsylvania was not approved. [73]

Real estate taxes

The Riverview School Board set the property tax rates in 2011-12 at 24.7860 mills. [74] A mill is $1 of tax for every $1,000 of a property's assessed value. Irregular property reassessments have become a serious issue in the commonwealth as it creates a significant disparity in taxation within a community and across a region. The most recent assessed values for all properties in Allegheny County are available at the Allegheny County Office of Property Assessments. [75]

Act 1 adjusted index

The Act 1 of 2006 Index regulates the rates at which each school district can raise property taxes in Pennsylvania. Districts are not allowed to raise taxes above that index unless they allow voters to vote by referendum, or they seek an exception from the state Department of Education. The base index for the 2011-2012 school year is 1.4 percent, but the Act 1 Index can be adjusted higher, depending on a number of factors, such as property values and the personal income of district residents. Act 1 included 10 exceptions including: increasing pension costs, increases in special education costs, a catastrophe like a fire or flood, increase in health insurance costs for contracts in effect in 2006 or dwindling tax bases. The base index is the average of the percentage increase in the statewide average weekly wage, as determined by the PA Department of Labor and Industry, for the preceding calendar year and the percentage increase in the Employment Cost Index for Elementary and Secondary Schools, as determined by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in the U.S. Department of Labor, for the previous 12-month period ending June 30. For a school district with a market value/personal income aid ratio (MV/PI AR) greater than 0.4000, its index equals the base index multiplied by the sum of .75 and its MV/PI AR for the current year.[82]

The School District Adjusted Index for the Riverview School District 2006-2007 through 2010-2011. [83]

For the 2011-12 school year the Riverview School Board applied for exceptions (pension costs $127,532) to exceed the Act 1 Index. Each year, the Riverview School Board has the option of adopting either 1) a resolution in January certifying they will not increase taxes above their index or 2) a preliminary budget in February. A school district adopting the resolution may not apply for referendum exceptions or ask voters for a tax increase above the inflation index. A specific timeline for these decisions is publisher each year by the Pennsylvania Department of Education. [86]

For 2009 and 2010, the Riverview School Board did not apply for any exceptions to exceed the Index limit. [87] [88] In the Spring of 2010, 135 Pennsylvania school boards asked to exceed their adjusted index. Approval was granted to 133 of them and 128 sought an exception for pension costs increases.[89]

Property tax relief

In 2011, the property tax relief amount, for 2,110 qualifying residents, was set at $168. The highest tax relief in Allegheny County was awarded to Duquesne City School District which received $351. The highest tax relief, in Pennsylvania, was awarded to Chester-Upland School District in Delaware County which received $631. In 2009, the Homestead/Farmstead Property Tax Relief from gambling for the Riverview School District was $171 per approved permanent primary residence. In the district, 2,073 property owners applied for the tax relief. The relief was subtracted from the total annual school property tax bill. Property owners apply for the relief through the county Treasurer's office. Farmers can qualify for a farmstead exemption on building used for agricultural purposes. The farm must be at least 10 contiguous acres and must be the primary residence of the owner. Farmers can qualify for both the homestead exemption and the farmstead exemption. In Allegheny County, 60% of eligible property owners applied for property tax relief in 2009.[90]

Additionally, the Pennsylvania Property Tax/Rent Rebate program is provided for low income Pennsylvanians aged 65 and older; widows and widowers aged 50 and older; and people with disabilities age 18 and older. The income limit is $35,000 for homeowners. The maximum rebate for both homeowners and renters is $650. Applicants can exclude one-half (1/2) of their Social Security income, consequently people who make substantially more than $35,000 may still qualify for a rebate. Individuals must apply annually for the rebate. This can be taken in addition to Homestead/Farmstead Property Tax Relief.

Property taxes in Pennsylvania are relatively high on a national scale. According to the Tax Foundation, Pennsylvania ranked 11th in the U.S. in 2008 in terms of property taxes paid as a percentage of home value (1.34%) and 12th in the country in terms of property taxes as a percentage of income (3.55%). [91]

Extracurriculars

The district offers a variety of clubs, activities and sports. Eligibility to participate is determined by school board policies.

By Pennsylvania law, all K-12 students in the district, including those who attend a private nonpublic school, cyber charter school, charter school and those homeschooled, are eligible to participate in the extracurricular programs including all athletics. They must meet the same eligibility rules as the students enrolled in the district's schools. [92]

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