Sayre Area High School is a rural combined junior–senior high school in

Sayre, Pennsylvania Sayre is a borough in Bradford County, Pennsylvania. It is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania. It is the principal city in the Sayre, PA Micropolitan Statistical Area. It lies 18 miles southeast of Elmira, New York, and 30 miles southwest of Bingh ...

, that serves two noncontiguous areas of Bradford County: Litchfield Township and the boroughs of Sayre and South Waverly. It is the sole junior and senior high school operated by the Sayre Area School District. In the 2018–2019 school year, the school had 489 students in grades 7–12 . Sayre Area High School students may choose to attend the Northern Tier Career Center for training in several areas: construction and mechanical trades (including auto mechanics),

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, commercial driving,

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, and food production management. The BLaST Intermediate Unit 17 provides the school with a wide variety of services, including specialized education for disabled students, speech and visual disability services, state-mandated training on recognizing and reporting child abuse, criminal background check processing for prospective employees, and professional development for staff and faculty.

Extracurricular activities

The district offers a variety of clubs and activities, as well as an extensive, publicly funded sports program.

Sports

The school provides: ;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 t ...

- A *

Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...

- AA * Cross-country - A * 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 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 ...

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 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 eve ...

- 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 ...

- AA ;Girls: *Basketball - AA *Cheer - AAAA *Cross-country - AA *Soccer (fall) - A *

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 ...

- A *Swimming and diving - AA *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 Sum ...

- A

Junior high school sports

;Boys: *Basketball *Cross-country *Football *Soccer *Track and field *Wrestling ;Girls: *Basketball *Cheer *Cross-country *Track and field *Volleyball

References

{{authority control Public high schools in Pennsylvania Schools in Bradford County, Pennsylvania