The Big Beaver Falls Area School District is a midsized, suburban public school district in Beaver County,

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. It serves the City of

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, the Boroughs of Big Beaver, Eastvale, Homewood, Koppel and New Galilee and White Township. The district encompasses approximately . According to 2000 federal census data, it serves a resident population of 15,260 people. In 2009, the district residents’

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was $14,937, while the

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was $33,942. In the Commonwealth, the median family income was $49,501 and the United States median family income was $49,445, in 2010. The district operates: two

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s, a

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and a

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Schools

*Big Beaver Elementary School (K–5th) *Central Elementary School (K–5th) *Beaver Falls Middle School (6th–8th) *Beaver Falls High School (9th–12th)

Extracurriculars

The district offers a variety of clubs, activities and sports.

Athletics

The main

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for the district athletic teams is the Tiger and their colors are orange and black. Big Beaver Falls Area is a PIAA District 7 school, and most sports compete in the Class AA division level (with the exception of golf, which competes in the Class AAAA level). The Tigers compete in the following sports: *Men's

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- 2016-2017 PIAA state champions *Men's

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 ...

*Men's Cross Country *Men's

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 ...

- PIAA state champions in 1970, 1994, 2005, 2013www.pahoops.org
/ref> *Men's

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 ...

*Men's

Swimming Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, or other liquid, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Locomotion is achieved through coordinated movement of the limbs and the body to achieve hydrodynamic thrust that r ...

and

Diving Diving most often refers to: * Diving (sport), the sport of jumping into deep water * Underwater diving, human activity underwater for recreational or occupational purposes Diving or Dive may also refer to: Sports * Dive (American football), a ...

*Men's and Women's

Track and Field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping events ...

*Men's and Women's Bowling-(started in 2007) *Women's

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 ...

*Women's

Tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

*Women's Cross Country *Women's Basketball *Women's

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 ...

*Women's Swimming and Diving

References

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External links

Big Beaver Falls Area School District HomepageBeaver Falls High School Baseball
School districts in Beaver County, Pennsylvania Education in Pittsburgh area Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania School districts established in 1867 1867 establishments in Pennsylvania