The Conewago Valley School District is a midsized, rural public school district. Conewago Valley School District encompasses approximately . It serves the Boroughs of Abbottstown, the northern portion of Bonneauville, McSherrystown and New Oxford and Berwick Township, Conewago Township, Hamilton Township, all but the southwestern edge of Mount Pleasant Township, Oxford Township, the eastern edge of Straban Township and the southeastern edge of Tyrone Township in

Adams County, Pennsylvania Adams County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 103,852. Its county seat is Gettysburg. The county was created on January 22, 1800, from part of York County, and was named for the secon ...

. According to 2000 Federal Census data, it served a resident population of 23,314. By 2010, the district's population increased to 27,336 people. The educational attainment levels for the School District population (25 years old and over) were 84.1% high school graduates and 13.5% college graduates. According to the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center, 37.3% of the District's pupils lived at 185% or below the Federal Poverty level as shown by their eligibility for the federal free or reduced price school meal programs in 2012. In 2009, Conewago Valley School District residents' per capita income was $18,281, while the median family income was $48,174. In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the median family income was $49,501 and the United States median family income was $49,445, in 2010. In Adams County, the median household income was $56,529. By 2013, the median household income in the United States rose to $52,100. According to Conewago Valley School District (CVSD) officials, in school year 2005–06, the District provided basic educational services to 3,788 pupils. It employed: 245 teachers, 116 full-time and part-time support personnel, and 13 administrators. Conewago Valley School District received more than $11.4 million in state funding in school year 2005–06. Per District officials, in school year 2007–08, the Conewago Valley School District provided basic educational services to 3,937 pupils. It employed: 259 teachers, 150 full-time and part-time support personnel, and 14 administrators. Conewago Valley School District received more than $13.3 million in state funding in school year 2007–08. Conewago Valley School District operates

New Oxford High School New Oxford High School is a midsized public high school located in the borough of New Oxford, Pennsylvania. The school is the sole high school in the Conewago Valley School District. New Oxford High School serves students from a portion of easte ...

(9th–12th), New Oxford Middle School (7th–8th), Conewago Valley Intermediate School (4th–6th), Conewago Township Elementary School (K-3rd) and New Oxford Elementary School (K-3rd). High school students, in 11th and 12th grades, may choose to attend Adams County Tech Prep, which is operated by the

Gettysburg Area School District The Gettysburg Area School District is a mid-sized, rural, public school district which serves students in a area of Adams County, Pennsylvania. The district includes: Gettysburg Borough, as well as Cumberland, Freedom, Highland, Franklin and ...

, for training in the construction and mechanical trades. The

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IU12 provides the District with a wide variety of services like specialized education for disabled students and hearing, speech and visual disability services and professional development for staff and faculty.

Extracurriculars

Conewago Valley School District offers a variety of clubs, activities and an extensive sports program.

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 ...

– AAAAA *

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 ...

– AAAAA * Cross Country – AAA *

Football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

– AAAAA *

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 ...

– AAA *Indoor Track and Field – AAAA *

Lacrosse Lacrosse is a team sport played with a lacrosse stick and a lacrosse ball. It is the oldest organized sport in North America, with its origins with the indigenous people of North America as early as the 12th century. The game was extensively ...

– AA *

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 ...

– AAAA * Swimming 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 ...

– AAA *

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 ...

– AAA *

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 ...

– AAA *

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 ...

– AAA *

Wrestling Wrestling is a series of combat sports involving grappling-type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. Wrestling techniques have been incorporated into martial arts, combat ...

– AAA Girls: *Basketball – AAAAA *Cheer – AAAAAA *Cross Country – AAA *

Field Hockey Field hockey is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with ten outfield players and a goalkeeper. Teams must drive a round hockey ball by hitting it with a hockey stick towards the rival team's shooting ci ...

– AA *Indoor Track and Field – AAAA *Lacrosse – AAA *Soccer (Fall) – AAAA *

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 ...

– AAAAA *Swimming and Diving – AAA *Girls' Tennis – AAA *Track and Field – AAA *

– AAAA Middle School sports: Boys: *Basketball *Cross Country *Football *Soccer *Track and Field *Wrestling Girls: *Basketball *Cheer *Cross Country *Field Hockey *Soccer *Track and Field *Volleyball According to PIAA directory January 2017

References

{{Adams County, Pennsylvania School Districts School districts in Adams County, Pennsylvania Adams County, Pennsylvania