Middletown Area School District is a small, suburban, public

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located in Middletown, Pennsylvania serving students in a portion of southern

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. The district includes the boroughs of Middletown and Royalton and Lower Swatara Township in Dauphin County. Middletown Area School District encompasses approximately . According to 2000 federal census data, it served a resident population of 18,355. By 2010, the district's population declined to 18,084 people. The educational attainment levels for the Middletown Area School District population (25 years old and over) were 79.2% high school graduates and 13.2% college graduates. The district is one of twelve public school districts operating in Dauphin County and one of the 500 public school districts of Pennsylvania. According to the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center, 38.9% of the district's pupils lived at 185% or below the Federal Poverty level as shown by their eligibility for the federal free or reduced price school meal programs in 2012. In 2009, Middletown Area School District residents' per capita income was $20,611, while the median family income was $49,728. In Dauphin County, the median household income was $52,387. By 2013, the median household income in the United States rose to $52,100. Middletown Area School District operates five public schools:

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(grades 9–12), Middletown Area Middle School (grades 6–8), Lyall J. Fink Elementary School (grades K–5),

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Elementary School (K–5th) and Robert G. Reid Elementary School (K–5th). Middletown Area School District is served by the

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which offers a variety of services, including a completely developed Kindergarten - 12th grade 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. High school students may choose to attend

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for training in the building trades and mechanical trades

The district pays the student's tuition to attend the school.

Extracurriculars

The school district offers a wide variety of clubs, activities and an extensive sports program. The district mascot is a Blue Raider and the colors are blue and gold. The high school and middle school participate in the

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. The school's marching band is the Blue Wave Marching Band.

Sports

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 ...

- AAA *

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 ...

- AAA * Cross country - 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 ...

- AAA *

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 *

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 ...

- AA *

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 ...

- 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 ...

- AAA *

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 - AAA *Cross country - AA *

Field hockey Field hockey is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with ten outfield players and a goalkeeper. Teams must drive a round hockey ball by hitting it with a hockey stick towards the rival team's shooting ci ...

- AA *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 ...

- AAA *Swimming and diving - AAA *Tennis - AA *Track and field - 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 ...

- AA ;Middle school sports: ;Boys: *Basketball *Cross country *Football *Soccer *Track and field *Wrestling ;Girls: *Basketball *Cross country *Field hockey *Track and field According to PIAA directory July 2014

References

External links

Middletown Area School District

Blue Wave Marching Band
{{Dauphin County, Pennsylvania School Districts School districts in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania Susquehanna Valley