Mount Carmel Area School District is a small, rural, public
school district
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North America United States
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in
Northumberland County, Pennsylvania
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The county was formed in 1772 from parts of Lancas ...
. The district is one of the 500
public school districts of Pennsylvania. It serves
Mount Carmel,
Kulpmont,
Marion Heights, and
Mount Carmel Township in Northumberland County, as well as the borough of
Centralia
Centralia may refer to:
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*Central Australia, sometimes called "Centralia"
Canada
* Centralia, Ontario
** RCAF Station Centralia, a former Royal Canadian Air Force training base
** Centralia (Essery Field) Aerodrome
United State ...
in
Columbia County. The Mount Carmel Area School District encompasses approximately . According to 2000 local
census
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data, it served a resident population of 12,815. By 2010, the district's population declined to 12,555 people. The educational attainment levels for the school district population (25 years old and over) were 85.3% high school graduates and 14.3% college graduates.
According to the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center, 69.2% 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, Mount Carmel Area School District residents'
per capita income
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Per capita i ...
was $15,294, while the
median family income was $35,239. In Northumberland County, the median household income was $38,397. 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.
Mount Carmel Area School District operates three schools: Mount Carmel Area Elementary School, Mount Carmel Area Junior High School and
Mount Carmel Area High School. The district also provides taxpayer funded, full-day preschool for 4-year-olds. In 2015, more than 51 Mount Carmel Area pupils attend full-time cyber school. The district does not offer its own cyber school program. The pupils attend any of the 13 cyber schools operating in Pennsylvania in 2015, including locally operated
SusQ Cyber Charter School.
Mount Carmel Area High School students may choose to attend
Northumberland County Career Technology Center for training in the building trades, culinary arts and cosmetology as well as other careers. The
Central Susquehanna Intermediate Unit CSIU16 provides the district with a wide variety of services like specialized education for disabled students and hearing, speech and visual disability services and professional development for staff and faculty.
Extracurriculars
The Mount Carmel Area School District offers a variety of clubs, activities and an extensive sports program. The Mount Carmel Area School District is a Division I member of the Pennsylvania Heartland Athletic Conference. The Pennsylvania Heartland Athletic Conference is a voluntary association of 25 PIAA High Schools within the central Pennsylvania region.
Mount Carmel Area School District operates an indoor pool which it rents to the general public for pool parties.
Sports
The district funds:
;Boys:
*
Baseball
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– AA
*
Basketball
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- AA
*
Cross country – Class AA
*
Football – AA
*
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 ...
-AA
*
Soccer – A
*
Swimming
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and
diving
Diving most often refers to:
* Diving (sport), the sport of jumping into deep water
* Underwater diving, human activity underwater for recreational or occupational purposes
Diving or Dive may also refer to:
Sports
* Dive (American football), a ...
– AA
*
Track and field
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– AA
*
Wrestling
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– AA
;Girls:
*Basketball – AA
*Cross country – A
*Golf – AA
*Soccer – A
*Swimming and diving – AA
*Track and field
;Junior high school sports:
;Boys:
*Basketball
*Cross country
*Football
*Track and field
*Wrestling
;Girls:
*Basketball
*Cross country
*Softball
*Track and field
*According to PIAA directory July 2012
Updated according to PIAA directory July 2014.
References
External links
Mount Carmel Area School DistrictCentral Susquehanna Intermediate Unit CSIU16Columbia-Montour Area Vocational-Technical SchoolSusQCyber Charter School
{{Columbia County, Pennsylvania School Districts
School districts in Columbia County, Pennsylvania
School districts in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania