The Marion Center Area School District is a school district in the state of

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. It is located in Marion Center in

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. It also serves the municipalities of Creekside, Washington Township,

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, Rayne Township, Plumville, East Mahoning Township, South Mahoning Township, Grant Township, and Canoe Township. The school's athletic teams compete in the Heritage Conference of District 6.

School campus

The school district consists of three buildings: Marion Center Area High School (grades 7–12), Rayne Elementary School (grades Pre-K–6), and W. A. McCreery Elementary School (grades Pre-K–6). The High School and W. A. McCreery Elementary are situated on the school's main campus at the intersection of 119 North and Pennsylvania 403 in Marion Center. The school's campus at one time extended to additional schools: Creekside-Washington Elementary School in Creekside, and Canoe-Grant Elementary School in Rochester Mills. Both buildings closed in 2010 during consolidation and were later sold in 2012. The school district is bordered by five other school districts: Indiana Area S. D., Penns Manor S. D., Punxsutawney S. D., Purchase Line S.D., as well as Armstrong S.D. (in Armstrong County).

Elementary schools

* Rayne Elementary School
2535 Rte. 119 Hwy. N.
Home, Pennsylvania 15747 * W. A. McCreery Elementary School
PO Box 199
22810 Pennsylvania 403
Marion Center, Pennsylvania 15759

High school

* Marion Center Area High School
PO Box 209
22800 Pennsylvania 403
Marion Center, Pennsylvania 15759

Governance

The school district is governed by 9 individually elected board members (serve four-year terms), the Pennsylvania State Board of Education, the

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and the

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. The federal government controls programs it funds like Title I funding for low-income children in the

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and the

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, which mandates the district focus resources on student success in acquiring reading and math skills.

History

The Marion Center High School began in 1916 as a three-year high school on North Manor Street in Marion Center. The first class of two persons (Edgar Dawson and Walter Simpson) was graduated April 16, 1917. In 1929 a new brick building was erected by E.E. Nupp Construction Co., Starford, Pa. This is now incorporated into the present high school building. The faculty was headed by William A. McCreery who had been teaching here since 1925 and was elected principal in 1928. In 1954 work on an extensive addition to the high school was begun and continued into 1955. Addition classrooms, including a new commercial department, a shop, and storage facilities were added to the building in 1962. The Marion Center East Mahoning Joint School Board was organized in 1928. In 1951 an important change came with the organization of a new high school jointure consisting of Marion Center, Canoe Independent, East Mahoning, Grant, Rayne, South Mahoning, Plumville, and Washington. The new joint school board, with representatives from each district, supplanted the old Marion Center-East Mahoning Joint Board effective July 1, 1951. From this point, the high school and its affiliate elementary buildings became known as the Marion Center Area School District. Mr. McCreery was elected Supervising Principal. In 1955 the jointure was extended to the elementary grades. Under the School District Reorganization Act of 1963, effective July 1, 1966, the school assumed the title of Marion Center Area High School.

Athletics

Boys Athletics

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- Class AA *

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- Class AA * Cross Country - Class AA *

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 ...

- Class AA *

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 ...

- Class AA *

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 ...

- Class AA *

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 ...

- Class AA

Girls Athletics

- Class AA * Cross Country - Class AA *

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- Class AA *

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- Class AA The school district has many extra-curricular activities, including an

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and a marching band.

References

External links

Marion Center Area School District

Penna. Inter-Scholastic Athletic Assn.
{{Authority control School districts in Indiana County, Pennsylvania School districts established in 1966