Millcreek Township School District is a school district serving
Millcreek Township, a suburb of
Erie, Pennsylvania. The total enrollment is 7,464 students. The District was the pilot district in the Start S.M.A.R.T. Program in 2002.
Schools
The Millcreek Township School District is home to 10 schools.
Elementary schools
*Chestnut Hill Elementary
*Tracy Elementary
*Belle Valley Elementary School
*Asbury Elementary School
*Grandview Elementary School
Middle schools
*Walnut Creek Middle School
*James S. Wilson Middle School
*Westlake Middle School
Walnut Creek Middle School
From 2000-2002 students at the school worked with the Asbury Woods Nature Center in a project to assess the Walnut Creek watershed to help with public education and protection of the natural resource.
Web page about the "Walnut Creek Watershed Initiative" giving progress reports, at the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection's "Growing Greener" Web site, accessed March 25, 2007
The development of the nature center's educational program was one of a number of environmental education projects undertaken by students the school's science classes. A class, calling itself "Walnut Creek S.E.W.E.R." (Saving Erie's Water & Environmental Resources), also worked on projects to educate their community "about cleaner water, including a billboard and brochures, such as Your Lawn & Pesticides: What Goes Around, Comes Around," according to The Carnegie Reporter. "They have also worked with local officials to increase street sweeping, which reduces runoff into the water."
Baldwin, Joyce, "Civic Education in Schools: The Right Time is Now" article in The Carnegie Reporter, Vol. 2/No. 3, Fall 2003, published by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, accessed March 24, 2007
Asbury middle school
High schools
*McDowell High School
McDowell High School is a public high school located in Millcreek Township, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Erie. It is the only high school in the Millcreek Township School District. The school's mascot is the Trojan.
Students
There are approximately ...
*McDowell Intermediate High School
Technical/ Alternative Education
*Millcreek Learning Center
*North Coast School
*Students in 10th Grade or above can take courses at rie County Technical School
Notes
External links
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Pennsylvania Department of Education information Web page for the districtMain Web page of the school district at Great Schools Web site
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Educational institutions established in 1805
Millcreek School District
1805 establishments in Pennsylvania