The Antietam School District is a diminutive, suburban public school district that serves the Borough of
Mount Penn and
Lower Alsace Township in
Berks County, Pennsylvania
Berks County ( Pennsylvania German: ''Barricks Kaundi'') is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 428,849. The county seat is Reading.
The Schuylkill River, a tributary of the Delaware Ri ...
. It encompasses approximately . According to a federal census, it served a resident population of 7,494. In 2009, the district residents’
per capita income
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Per capita i ...
was $22,716, while the
median family income
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was $49,511. In the Commonwealth, the median family income was $49,501 and the United States median family income was $49,445, in 2010.
Antietam School District operates three schools: Antietam Middle/Sr High School (7th–12th), Mount Penn Elementary Center (2nd–6th) and Mount Penn Primary Center (K-1st).
Extracurriculars
Antietam School District offers a variety of clubs, activities and interscholastic athletics. Antietam School District and
Exeter Township School District operate a cooperative sports agreement for 11 sports for both boys and girls, including football, wrestling, swimming and diving and cross country. Costs are significant. The program started in 1985–1986 school year.
Sports
The District funds:
;Boys:
*
Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding tea ...
- A
*
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appr ...
- A
*Bowling - AAAA
*Cross country (with ETSD)
*Football (with MSD)
*
Golf
Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.
Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping wi ...
- AA
*Indoor Track and Field (with ETSD)
*Lacrosse - (with ETSD)
*
Soccer
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...
JV/V - A
*Swimming and Diving - (with ETSD)
*Track and Field (with ETSD)
*
Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...
- AA
*Wrestling - (with ETSD)
;Girls:
*Basketball - A
*Bowling - AAAA
*Cross country (with ETSD)
*Field Hockey (with ETSD)
*Golf - AA
*Indoor Track and Field (with ETSD)
*Lacrosse - (with ETSD)
*Soccer (Fall) - A
*
Softball
Softball is a game similar to baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Softball is played competitively at club levels, the college level, and the professional level. The game was first created in 1887 in Chicago by George Hanc ...
- A
*Swimming and Diving - (with ETSD)
*Girls' Tennis - AA
*Track and Field (with ETSD)
*Volleyball JV/V - A
Middle School Sports:
;Boys:
*Baseball
*Basketball
*Soccer
;Girls:
*Basketball
*Field Hockey
*Soccer (Fall)
*Softball
According to PIAA directory July 2012
References
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School districts in Berks County, Pennsylvania