Richland School District (Cambria County, Pennsylvania)
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The Richland School District is a small, rural, public
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in
Cambria County, Pennsylvania Cambria County is a County (United States), county in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 133,472. Its county seat is Ebensburg, Pennsylvania, Ebensb ...
. It serves the borough of Geistown and the Township of Richland. It encompasses approximately 22
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s. According to 2010 federal census data, the district served a resident population of 14,902 people. The educational attainment levels for the school district population (25 years old and over) were 90% high school graduates and 26.8% college graduates. The district is one of the 500 public school districts of Pennsylvania. According to the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center, 23.6% 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 Richland School District residents'
per capita income Per capita income (PCI) or average income measures the average income earned per person in a given area (city, region, country, etc.) in a specified year. In many countries, per capita income is determined using regular population surveys, such ...
was $18,883, while the
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was $45,694. In the Commonwealth, the median family income was $49,501 and the United States median family income was $49,445, in 2010. In Cambria County, the median household income was $39,574. By 2013, the median household income in the
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rose to $52,100. In 2014, the median household income in the USA was $53,700. The Richland School District operates two schools: Richland Elementary School (Grades K–6) and
Richland Senior High School Richland High School is a small, rural public high school located at One Academic Avenue, Johnstown, Pennsylvania. In the 2016–2017, Richland High School enrollment was reported as 762 pupils in 7th through 12th grades. Richland High School is ...
(Grades 7–12). High school students may choose to attend Greater Johnstown Career and Technology Center for training in the construction and mechanical trades. The Appalachia Intermediate Unit IU8 provides the district with a wide variety of services like specialized education for disabled students and hearing, background checks for employees, state mandated recognizing and reporting child abuse training, speech and visual disability services and professional development for staff and faculty.


History

Richland School District was established in 1917 after a wooden schoolhouse was built in Geistown. The school was small. A permanent brick building was built in 1923 along the same road as the original wooden structure. The 1923 brick building continued to function as a senior high school until 1954 when a new high school was completed on Scalp Avenue. Through the 1960s, the district went through rapid expansion. Two elementary school and a middle schools were all built within a decade of each other near Theatre Drive. The district continued its expansion when in 1970, it completed an even newer high school for students. During this time, the 1923 building and 1954 building were being used for lower grades. In 2003, the roof collapsed in the Richland Middle School. This caused severe structural damage to the school. It was decided that a new, junior-senior high school would be built, which would encompass grades 7 to 12. In the meantime, middle school-aged students were instead taught in the Rachel Hill building near the elementary school. The new school began construction in 2006 but was not finished until 2007. In that same year, Penn Highlands Community College finished a renovation project on the 1970 senior high and began to use it as their own campus the following year. The old elementary school, Rachel Hill, which was opened in 1960, was demolished in 2020. It had been vacant since 2007, when it was briefly used as a middle school, but before that it had been closed since 1998. During the
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in 2020, Richland School District shut down in mid-March, and stayed closed for the remainder of the 2019–2020 school year. During the following school year, Richland briefly went to remote learning, then later to a hybrid remote-physical model as
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cases spiked during the 2020 holiday season. For the 2021–2022 school year, Richland followed strict mask mandates from the state government until February 2022, when the board voted to make face coverings optional.


Extracurriculars

The Richland School District offers a wide variety of clubs, activities and an extensive sports program.


Sports

The district provides: ;Varsity: ;Boys: *
Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball games, bat-and-ball sport played between two team sport, teams of nine players each, taking turns batting (baseball), batting and Fielding (baseball), fielding. The game occurs over the course of several Pitch ...
- AA *
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 (appro ...
- AA * Cross country - A *
Football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...
- AA *
Golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various Golf club, clubs to hit a Golf ball, ball into a series of holes on a golf course, course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standa ...
- AA *Indoor track and field - AAAA *
Soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...
- A *
Swimming Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, such as saltwater or freshwater environments, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Swimmers achieve locomotion by coordinating limb and body movements to achieve hydrody ...
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), ...
- AA *
Tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ...
- AA *
Track and field Track and field (or athletics in British English) is a sport that includes Competition#Sports, athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name used in North America is derived from where the sport takes place, a ru ...
- AA *
Wrestling Wrestling is a martial art, combat sport, and form of entertainment that involves grappling with an opponent and striving to obtain a position of advantage through different throws or techniques, within a given ruleset. Wrestling involves di ...
- AA ;Girls: *Basketball - AA *Cheerleading - AAAA *Cross country - A *Indoor track and field - AAAA *Soccer - A *
Softball Softball is a Variations of baseball, variation of baseball, the difference being that it is played with a larger ball, on a smaller field, and with only underhand pitches (where the ball is released while the hand is primarily below the ball) ...
- AA *Swimming and diving - AAA *Tennis - AAA *Track and field - AA *
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 ;Junior high school sports: ;Boys: *Basketball *Cross country *Football *Soccer *Track and field *Wrestling ;Girls: *Basketball *Cross country *Soccer *Track and field *Volleyball According to PIAA directory July 2015


References


External links

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Penna. Interschoalistic Athletic Assn.
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