Map of Northumberland County Pennsylvania School Districts

Southern Columbia Area School District is a small, rural, public

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located in

Catawissa, Pennsylvania Catawissa is a borough in Columbia County, Pennsylvania. It is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania. The population was 1,539 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Bloomsburg– Berwick Metropolitan Statistical Area. Catawissa is twinned with ...

. It serves communities in two counties. In Columbia County the district serves: Catawissa Borough, Catawissa Township, Locust Township, Roaring Creek Township, Franklin Township and Cleveland Township. In Northumberland County it serves Ralpho Township. Southern Columbia Area School District encompasses approximately . According to 2000 federal census data, it serves a resident population of 9,803. By 2010, the

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reported that the district's population increased to 10,386 people. The

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of residents was $18,969 in 2009, while the

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was $45,889. In the Commonwealth, the median family income was $49,501 and the United States median family income was $49,445, in 2010. The district is one of the 500 public school districts of Pennsylvania. According to district officials, in school year 2009–10, the Southern Columbia Area School District provided basic educational services to 1,488 pupils. The district employed: 108 teachers, 115 full-time and part-time support personnel, and 7 administrators. Southern Columbia Area School District received more than $6.6 million in state funding in school year 2009–10. Per school district officials, in school year 2007–08, the Southern Columbia Area School District provided basic educational services to 1,424 pupils through the employment of 114 teachers, 141 full-time and part-time support personnel, and 7 administrators. Southern Columbia Area School District operates three schools: G.C. Hartman Elementary Center (Kindergarten through Fourth Grade), Southern Columbia Area Middle School (Fifth grade through Eighth Grade), and

Southern Columbia Area High School Southern Columbia Area High School is a small, rural public high school located in Catawissa, Pennsylvania. It is the sole high school operated by Southern Columbia Area School District. In 2013, Southern Columbia Area High School reported an en ...

serving grades nine through twelve. Both the Elementary and the Junior/Senior High Schools are accredited by the

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and by the Pennsylvania Department of Education.

Facilities

Southern Columbia has two buildings. One is an elementary school housing kindergarten to fourth grade. Ground was broken in 1974 and the building opened in 1976. The elementary building has a gymnasium/cafeteria. The other is a high school housing ninth to twelfth grades built in 1961. The high school has a 2,080-seat gymnasium and a 900-seat auditorium. A middle school addition was built onto the high school in 1999. The middle/high school was renovated in 2011. The elementary school was also renovated in 2011. The middle/high school is a two-story building. The elementary is also a two-story building.

Extracurricular activities

The Southern Columbia Area School District offers a variety of clubs, activities and an extensive sports program. Southern Columbia currently holds the Pennsylvania state record for consecutive total state football championships, with 7 and 14 respectively.In 2022, the school district was mired in controversy after two high school football players posted a video on TikTok after the game referencing their win over Westinghouse High School, a predominantly Black highschool in Pittsburgh, that included the n-word.

Sports

The district funds: ;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 ...

- 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 (appr ...

- AA * Cross country - A *

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 ...

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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 ...

- AA *Soccer - A *

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 ...

- 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 *Cross country - A *

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 *Golf *Soccer - 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 ...

- AA *Track and field - AA ;Middle school sports: ;Boys: *Basketball *Cross country *Football *Soccer *Wrestling ;Girls: *Basketball *Cross country *Field hockey *Soccer According to PIAA directory July 2012

References

External links

Southern Columbia Area School District

Columbia-Montour Area Vocational-Technical School
{{Columbia County, Pennsylvania School Districts School districts in Columbia County, Pennsylvania School districts in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania