The Cumberland Valley School District is a large, rural and

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public school district located in Central Pennsylvania. It covers Hampden Township, Monroe Township, Middlesex Township and Silver Spring Township in

Cumberland County, Pennsylvania Cumberland County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 259,469. Its county seat is Carlisle. Cumberland County is included in the Harrisburg–Carlisle metropolitan statistical area. Histo ...

. According to 2000 federal census data, it served a resident population of 46,926. By 2010, the district's population increased to 54,670 people. In 2009, the district residents’

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was $28,440, while the

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was $66,515. In the Commonwealth, the median family income was $49,501 and the United States median family income was $49,445, in 2010. By 2013, the median household income in the United States rose to $52,100. The district is served by the Capital Area Intermediate Unit 15, which offers a variety of services, including a completely developed K-12 curriculum that is mapped and aligned with the Pennsylvania Academic Standards (available online), shared services, a group purchasing program and a wide variety of special education and special needs services.

Schools

Cumberland Valley School District operates eight Elementary Schools (K-5th), two Middle Schools (6th-8th) and

Cumberland Valley High School Cumberland Valley High School (CV) is a public high school founded in 1954. It is located in the Cumberland Valley School District of Mechanicsburg, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. In the 2019–2020 school year, according to the National Cente ...

(9th-12th). *

* Eagle View Middle School * Mountain View Middle School * Good Hope Middle School (Now used as a 9th Grade Academy) * Green Ridge Elementary School * Hampden Elementary School * Middlesex Elementary School * Monroe Elementary School * Shaull Elementary School * Silver Spring Elementary School * Sporting Hill Elementary School * Winding Creek Elementary School

Extracurriculars

Cumberland Valley School District also provides a wide variety of clubs, activities and an extensive sports program. Varsity and junior varsity athletic activities are under the

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Sports

The District funds: High School: ;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 ...

- AAAA *

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 ...

- AAAA *Bowling - AAAA * 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 ...

- AAAA *

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 *

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 ...

- AAAA *Soccer - AAA *

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 ...

- 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 *

Water Polo Water polo is a competitive team sport played in water between two teams of seven players each. The game consists of four quarters in which the teams attempt to score goals by throwing the ball into the opposing team's goal. The team with the ...

- AAAA *

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 - AAAA *Bowling - AAAA *Cross Country - AAA *Competitive chess - AAAA *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 Middle School Sports: ;Boys: *Basketball *Cross Country *Soccer *Track and Field ;Girls: *Basketball *Cross Country *Field Hockey *Track and Field *Volleyball According to PIAA directory July 2012

References

External links

Cumberland Valley School District Monroe Elementary School
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