Abington School District is a medium-sized, suburban, public school district that serves the borough of
Rockledge and
Abington Township in
Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
Montgomery County is a County (United States), county in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is the List of counties in Pennsylvania, third-most populous county in Pennsylvania and the List of the most populous cou ...
. The district operates one high school, one middle school, and seven elementary schools.
Abington School District encompasses approximately 16
square mile
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s. According to the 2000 federal census data, it serves a resident population of 58,680. In 2009, the district residents'
per capita income
Per capita income (PCI) or total income measures the average income earned per person in a given area (city, region, country, etc.) in a specified year. It is calculated by dividing the area's total income by its total population.
Per capita i ...
was $29,932 a year, while the
median family income was $70,226. In the Commonwealth, the median family income was $49,501 and the United States median family income was $49,445, in 2010. In the 2021-2022 school year, Abington School District provided basic educational services to 8,292 pupils. It employed: 551 teachers, 399 full-time and part-time support personnel, and 62 administrators. Abington School District received more than $16.2 million in state funding in school year 2007-08.
Secondary schools
*
Abington Senior High (9th, 10th, 11th, 12th)
*Abington Middle School (6th, 7th, 8th)
Elementary Schools (K-5)
*Copper Beech
*Highland
*McKinley
*Overlook
*Roslyn
*Rydal
*Willow Hill
Abington School District vs. Schempp
The school district received some notoriety in the 1960s when it became one of the key parties in the
school prayer controversy, with ''
Abington School District v. Schempp
''Abington School District v. Schempp'', 374 U.S. 203 (1963), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court decided 8–1 in favor of the respondent, Edward Schempp on behalf of his son Ellery Schempp, and declared that school-spo ...
''. The
Supreme Court case resulted in a declaration of the
unconstitutional
Constitutionality is said to be the condition of acting in accordance with an applicable constitution; "Webster On Line" the status of a law, a procedure, or an act's accordance with the laws or set forth in the applicable constitution. When l ...
ity of school-sanctioned
Bible
The Bible (from Koine Greek , , 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures that are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, and many other religions. The Bible is an anthologya compilation of texts ...
reading. This case is considered a landmark and surprised former President
Dwight Eisenhower, who had appointed
Earl Warren as Chief Justice.
[Abington School District v. Schempp]
Rydal-Meadowbrook Civic Association
.
References
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School districts in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania