The Juniata County School District is a rural,

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district located in

Juniata County, Pennsylvania Juniata County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 23,509. Its county seat is Mifflintown. The county was created on March 2, 1831, from part of Mifflin County and named for the Juniata ...

. The district is one of the 500 public school districts of Pennsylvania and one of seven county-wide school districts in the Commonwealth. The district encompasses approximately . Juniata County School District serves residents in: Beale Township, Delaware Township, Fayette Township, Fermanagh Township, Lack Township, Milford Township, Monroe Township, Spruce Hill Township, Susquehanna Township, Turbett Township, Tuscarora Township and Walker Township. It also serves the residents of the following boroughs: Mifflin,

Mifflintown Mifflintown is a borough (Pennsylvania), borough in and the county seat of Juniata County, Pennsylvania, Juniata County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 842 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. Geography Mifflintown is ...

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, Thompsontown, East Salem, East Waterford,

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, McAlisterville and Richfield. According to 2000 federal census data, Juniata County School District served a resident population of 22,273 people. By 2013, the US Census reports that the Juniata County School District's resident population grew to 24,005 people. The educational attainment levels for the Juniata County School District population (25 years old and over) were 82.4% high school graduates and 11.2% college graduates. The district is one of the 500 public school districts of Pennsylvania. According to the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center, 40.6% of the district's pupils lived at 185% or below the

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as shown by their eligibility for the federal free or reduced price school meal programs in 2012. In 2009, the district residents’

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was $16,112, while the

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was $39,736. 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 educational attainment levels for the population 25 and over were 82.4% high school graduates and 11.2% college graduates. Juniata County School District operates two high schools:

Juniata High School Juniata High School is a small, rural, public high school which is one of two high schools operated by the Juniata County School District. The students reside in the central and western portions of Juniata County in central Pennsylvania. The camp ...

and

East Juniata Junior/Senior High School East Juniata Junior/Senior High School is a diminutive, rural, combined middle school and high school. It is one of two secondary campuses in the Juniata County School District. The school is located along Route 35 in Fayette Township. In the 201 ...

. Juniata County high school students may choose to attend

Mifflin-Juniata Career and Technology Center Mifflin-Juniata Career and Technology Center is a comprehensive vocational education facility, serving around 500 high school students from public and private schools in Mifflin and Juniata counties in Pennsylvania. The school is located just ou ...

for training in the construction and mechanical trades. The district also operates one middle school – Tuscarora Junior High School – and two elementary schools Juniata Elementary and East Juniata Elementary. The

Tuscarora Intermediate Unit Tuscarora may refer to the following: First nations and Native American people and culture * Tuscarora people **''Federal Power Commission v. Tuscarora Indian Nation'' (1960) * Tuscarora language, an Iroquoian language of the Tuscarora people * ...

IU11 provides the district with a wide variety of services like specialized education for disabled students and hearing, speech and visual disability services, employee background checks and professional development for staff and faculty.

Extracurriculars

The Juniata County School District offers a wide variety of clubs, activities and sports.

Athletics

The district funds: ;Varsity: ;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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

- AA ;Girls: *Basketball - AAA *Soccer - AA *

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 ...

- AA *Track and field - AA

References

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