Cumberland Valley High School (CV) is a public high school founded in 1954. It is located in the

Cumberland Valley School District The Cumberland Valley School District is a large, rural and suburban public school district located in Central Pennsylvania. It covers Hampden Township, Monroe Township, Middlesex Township and Silver Spring Township in Cumberland County, Pe ...

of Mechanicsburg,

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. In the 2019–2020 school year, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, the school had 2,809 pupils enrolled in the ninth to twelfth grades. The school employed 150.75

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teachers yielding a student:teacher ratio of 18.66:1. The mascot is an Eagle. The Cumberland Valley High School serves the four townships of Hampden,

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, Monroe and Silver Spring in Cumberland County. The area included in the school system extends from Carlisle to

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. This area is suburban and is located fifteen miles west of

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. The combined junior-senior high school opened in September 1954 to 800 students. The school has steadily grown since that time. This is evident by the size of only the freshman class of 2014, which amounts to about 705 students. All schools in the district, except for Monroe Elementary, have been re-built or remodeled due to significant student population growth. Seven elementary schools and two middle schools funnel into the high school. The middle schools are: Mountain View Middle School and Eagle View Middle School. The library (known as IMC, stands for "Instructional Materials Center" ) is a learning center providing books, magazines, daily newspapers, audiovisuals, and CD-ROMs. Students use computers to access library resources, the Internet and to do word processing and graphical analysis. They also have interlibrary loan privileges with other libraries in the state. The school has offered the

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since 2011.

Extracurriculars

A wide variety of activities, clubs, and sports are offered to the students and community. In particular, th
Cumberland Valley

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team has seen great success in recent years, earning their first-ever state championship in April of 2022. Varsity and junior varsity athletic activities are under the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletics Association.

Sports

The District funds: ;Boys: *

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- AAAA *

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- AAAAAA *Bowling - AAAA * Cross Country - Class AAA * Football - AAAAAA *

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 ...

- AAA *Lacrosse - AAAA *Soccer - AAA *

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and

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- Class AAA *Tennis - AAA *

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- AAA *

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- Class AAA *Water Polo - AAAA *

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- AAA ;Girls: *Basketball - AAAAAA *Bowling - AAAA *Cross Country - Class AAA *Field Hockey - AAA *Golf - AAA *Lacrosse - AAAA *Soccer (Fall) - AAA *Softball - AAAA *Swimming and Diving - AAA *Girls' Tennis - AAA *Track and Field - AAA *Volleyball - AAA *Water Polo - AAAA *Cheerleading- AAAA According to PIAA directory July 2012

Notable alumni

* Charlie Adams, former professional football player,

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and Houston Texans (Class of 1998) * Stan Gelbaugh, former professional football player,

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and Seattle Seahawks (Class of 1981) * Joshua Gros, professional soccer player,

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(Class of 2000) * Katie Koestner, activist against sexual assault (Class of 1990) * Chella Man, transgender artist and LGBTQ activist (Class of 2016) * Alpesh Patel, filmmaker (Class of 1991) *

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, former professional football player (Class of 1993), Oakland Raiders and

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, former U.S. ambassador to Denmark *

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, professional '' Call of Duty'' player (Class of 2013) *

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, former professional basketball player,

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player (Class of 2003) * Stacey Williams, actress and model (Class of 1986) *

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, professional racecar driver in the

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Series (Class of 2005)

References

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