Dallas High School is a
public high school located in
Dallas,
Pennsylvania, United States. In 2016, enrollment was reported as 888 pupils in 9th through 12th grades. The school employed 58 teachers. Dallas High School is the sole high school operated by the
Dallas School District.
Dallas High School students may choose to attend the
West Side Area Vocational Technical School
West Side Career and Technology Center (formerly West Side Area Vocational-Technical School) is a full-time Career and Technology Center located in Luzerne County at 75 Evans Street, Pringle, Pennsylvania. The school is home to students of Wyo ...
for training in the construction and mechanical trades. The Luzerne
Intermediate Unit IU18 provides Dallas High School with a wide variety of services like: specialized education for disabled students; state mandated training on recognizing and reporting child abuse; speech and visual disability services; criminal background check processing for prospective employees and professional development for staff and faculty.
Extracurriculars
The Dallas School District offers a wide variety of clubs, activities and an extensive, publicly funded sports program.
Athletics
The district funds:
;Varsity:
;Boys:
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Baseball - AAAA
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Basketball- AAAAA
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Cross country - AA
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Football
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- AAAA
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Golf - AAA
* Indoor track and field - AAAA
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Lacrosse - AA
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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 ...
- AAA
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Swimming and
diving - AAA
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Tennis - AA
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Track and field - AAA
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Volleyball - AA
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Wrestling - AAA
;Girls:
* Basketball - AAAA
* Cheerleading - AAAAA
* Cross country - AA
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Field hockey - AA
* Golf - AA
* Lacrosse - AA
* Soccer (Fall) - AAA
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Softball - AAAA
* Swimming and diving - AA
* Tennis - AA
* Track and field - AAA
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Volleyball - AAA
According to PIAA directory July 2016
Dallas High School has won
PIAA State Championships in
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 ...
(1993), girls'
cross country (2003, 2005, 2014), boys cross country (2015, 2016), girls'
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 ...
(2007), and men's diving (2005, 2006). Dallas also has won many District 2 and Wyoming Valley Conference titles. A lacrosse team was also adopted for the 2009 season.
Scandals
In 2010, Dallas High School was the subject of a report by the Pennsylvania Auditor General. The report found that a former guidance counselor, John Wolensky, had misappropriated more than fifty thousand dollars in school funds. The Auditor General lays blame at the feet of superintendent Frank Galicki for lack of proper oversight.
In 2012, man, a special education teacher at Dallas Middle School, resigned after he was found to have taken lewd photographs of special education students. Shuga was subsequently charged with invasion of privacy.
Notable alumni
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Greg Manusky, former
American football player and current defensive coordinator for the
Indianapolis Colts
The Indianapolis Colts are a professional American football team based in Indianapolis. The Colts compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) South division. Since the 2008 ...
of the
National Football League
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Lisa Baker, Pennsylvania State Senator (
R-
Luzerne).
References
External links
Dallas High School website
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Public high schools in Pennsylvania
Educational institutions established in 1961
Schools in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
1961 establishments in Pennsylvania