The Wyoming Area School District is a midsized, suburban, public

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located in northeastern

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and southeastern Wyoming County, Pennsylvania. It is situated midway between Wilkes-Barre and

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(USA). The District is one of the 500 public school districts of Pennsylvania. Wyoming Area School District is composed of six municipalities:

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, West Wyoming, Harding and Falls Township, covering approximately primarily in Luzerne County. According to 2000 federal census data, it served a resident population of 20,386. The 2010 federal census data, reported a decline of the District's resident population to 19,386 people. In 2009, Wyoming Area School District residents' per capita income was $18,034, while the

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was $43,321. In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 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. Wyoming Area School District operates four schools from grades K-12 consisting of the Secondary Center (Grades 7-12) in

, the Tenth Street Elementary School (Grades 1-3) in Wyoming, the John F. Kennedy Elementary School (Kindergarten/Head Start) in Exeter, and the Montgomery Avenue Elementary School (Grades 4-6) in West Pittson. Wyoming Area offers a full-day kindergarten.

History

In 1966, the school districts of

, and West Wyoming were merged to create the Wyoming Area School District.

Extracurriculars

Wyoming Area School District's students have access to a variety of clubs, activities and an extensive sports program.

Academic competition teams achievements

* The Wyoming Area High School Academic Team won the LIU18 Championship sponsored by LIU18 at King's College in 2003 and 2004 and competed in the Pennsylvania Academic Championship in Harrisburg. * The Wyoming Area Scholastic Scrimmage Team competed in WVIA TV's Scholastic Scrimmage and was first runner up in the Grand Championship in 2007 and 2009. The 2009 team competed at the Pennsylvania Academic Competition in Harrisburg and placed seventh. The 2010 team won the LIU18 Championship and the Grand Championship and competed at PAC. The 2011 team won the LIU18 Championship and qualified for PAC. * The Wyoming Area Middle School Academic Team has won Scranton Preparatory School's Young Scholars Program in 2005, 2007, 2008 and 2009 and 2011. In 2006, the team finished second. * Wyoming Area Middle School students were state champions in the Crave the Wave event at the 2009 State Science Olympiad Competition held at Juniata College. * Wyoming Area High School placed 8th at the State Science Olympiad competition in 2009 while the Middle School team placed 16th. * Wyoming Area Middle School and High School Science Olympiad teams both placed second at the regional Science Olympiad competition held at Penn State Wilkes-Barre in 2009. * Wyoming Area Middle School finished in 11th place out of 150 schools in Pennsylvania in the State Science Olympiad Competition in 2008. * Wyoming Area Middle School was the champion in the regional Science Olympiad competition in 2008 while the high school placed second. * Wyoming Area High School was the regional Science Olympiad competition champion in 2005 and placed in the top ten in the Pennsylvania State Science Olympiad Competition in 2006 and 2007. * Wyoming Area Shore Bowl team, competing in the Shore Bowl sponsored by Rutgers University and the National Ocean Sciences Bowl, finished second in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2008 and finished first and undefeated in 2007. The team competed in the National Championship at Stoneybrook University. * The Wyoming Area JETS Team, competing at Penn State Wilkes-Barre, finished first in their region in 2009 and well as first in the state of Pennsylvania. The team's score also placed them fifth in the nation. Previously in 2005, the team had finished in second place. * The Wyoming Area Kane Physics team competing in the Kane Physics Contest at the University of Scranton finished first in the competition in 2004, 2007, 2008, and 2009 while also placing second in 2005. * Wyoming Area has finished first in the Bloomsburg University Science Iditarod for four consecutive years from 2005 to 2008. In 2008 Wyoming Area won not only the Grand Championship but was first in Geosciences, Biology, Chemistry and Physics. * Between 1983 and 2009, Wyoming Area High School had 30 first or second places finishes in the American Chemical Society Contest sponsored by the Susquehanna Valley Section of the American Chemical Society. In 2009, Wyoming Area had three first-place winners. * Wyoming Area High School took the top three places in the University of Scranton's 2009 Brain Bee. The High School also won the competition in 2005 and 2006 and has placed in the top ten three times at the National Brain Bee in Baltimore Maryland.
PIAA School Directory

Athletics

The District funds: ;Boys: *

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- AAAA *

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- AAAA * Cross Country - AA *

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 ...

- AAA *

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 *

Indoor Track and Field Track and field is a sport that includes Competition#Sports, 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 ...

- AAAA *

Lacrosse Lacrosse is a team sport played with a lacrosse stick and a lacrosse ball. It is the oldest organized sport in North America, with its origins with the indigenous people of North America as early as the 12th century. The game was extensively ...

- AA *

Soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

- AA *

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and

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- AA *

Tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

- 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 events ...

- AAA *

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: *

- AAAA * Cross Country - AA *

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- AAAA * Girls

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- AAAA *

and

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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 ...

- AAA ;Junior High School Sports: ;Boys: * Baseball * Basketball * Cross Country * Football * Soccer * Track and Field * Wrestling ;Girls: * Basketball * Cross Country * Field Hockey * Softball * Track and Field According to PIAA directory July 2013 Football has traditionally been the school's most competitive program. In addition to having won the Wyoming Valley Conference numerous times, In 2019, the program won the PIAA Class 3A State Championships against Central Valley (21-13),

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AA titles in 1992, 1998, and 2012, and the PIAA District 2 AAA title in 2003. Several football players have also gone on to play

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Football at schools such as

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Bucknell University Bucknell University is a private liberal arts college in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1846 as the University at Lewisburg, it now consists of the College of Arts and Sciences, Freeman College of Management, and the College of Engineering. ...

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

Sacred Heart University Sacred Heart University (SHU) is a private, Catholic university in Fairfield, Connecticut. It was founded in 1963 by the Most Reverend Walter W. Curtis, Bishop of the Diocese of Bridgeport, Connecticut. Sacred Heart was the first Catholic un ...

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to teach an ...

, the

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Penn State University The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State or PSU) is a public state-related land-grant research university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvania. Founded in 1855 as the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania, Penn State became ...

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, and

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. Paul Marranca, the head coach at Wyoming Area for 27 seasons (1976–86, 1992–2007), was inducted into the Pennsylvania Scholastic Football Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2010.

is also a major sport at Wyoming Area and students have been recruited by schools such as

and

Temple University Temple University (Temple or TU) is a public state-related research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1884 by the Baptist minister Russell Conwell and his congregation Grace Baptist Church of Philadelphia then called Ba ...

to play at their institution. In the 2006-2007 school year, the Wyoming Area

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team took a perfect record of 12-0 into the playoffs. Other sports include

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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 ...

soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

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 ...

, cross country,

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 ...

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 ...

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two opposing teams use ice hock ...

and

tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

. Wrestling (the most demanding and unappreciated of all the aforementioned sports), not previously mentioned, is also offered and has showcased numerous Wyoming Valley Conference/District II Individual & Team Champions throughout the history of the Wyoming Area Warriors wrestling program. The 2012-2013 wrestling season produced four P.I.A.A. District II Wrestling Champions in Patrick Heck (106 lbs.), Carmen Mauriello (120 lbs.), Nicholas Heck (138 lbs.) and Andrew Schultz (126 lbs.), with Andrew Schultz becoming the school's first 4X P.I.A.A. District II Wrestling Champion. Andrew Schultz was also the 2013 NE regional runner up and placed 7th at the 2013 P.I.A.A. State Wrestling Championships in Hershey, PA, along with Nicholas Heck finishing third at the 2013 NE regionals, respectively. Patrick Heck and Nicholas Heck (brothers) followed in their Uncle Pat Heck's footsteps, who himself was a two-time P.I.A.A. District II Champion.

Programs, Clubs, and Organizations

The Wyoming Area Secondary Center provides its students with various extracurricular activities aside from sports. These activities include Gardening Club, Coding Club, Chess Club,

Key Club Key Club International, also called Key Club, is an international service organization for high school students. As a student-led organization, Key Club's goal is to encourage leadership through serving others. Key Club International is the hig ...

, Builder's Club, Student Council, Art Club,

FBLA The Future Business Leaders of America, or FBLA, is an American career and technical student organization headquartered in Reston, Virginia. Established in 1940, FBLA is a non-profit organization of high school ("FBLA"), Middle Level ("FBLA ...

SADD Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD), formerly Students Against Driving Drunk, is an organization whose aim is to prevent accidents from students taking potentially destructive decisions. Mission "SADD empowers and mobilizes students a ...

, TATU, Marching Band, Concert Band, Indoor Winds, Chorus and Drama. Students may bf also participate in Young Scholars, Scholastic Scrimmage, Brain Bee, Shore Bowl, Science Olympiad, American Chemical Society Contest, Bloomsburg Science Iditarod, Kane Physics Competition, JETS Contest, Envirothon and History Day. The Journalism Club, Yearbook, and the WAVE(Warrior audio visual entertainment) allow students to showcase their creative writing and reporting skills. Current Board of Education

2017 Graduation Incident

On June 16, 2017,

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Peter Butera gave a graduation speech that criticized the school's student government structure, claiming that the student body President's role (which Butera also served) was to be a "party planner". Before he could finish his speech, however, he was abruptly cut off by the school. A clip of this went viral, with the school district receiving universal backlash.

Enrichment technology programs

* The WAVE, Warrior Audio Visual Entertainment, is Wyoming Area's own closed-circuit television station, broadcasting announcements through the in-class televisions. * An award-winning group of students works on Web Site Design and has competed with other districts from across the state by building and deploying websites for real-life businesses and organizations. * Robotics Club - A small club that builds robots and small machines using

Lego Mindstorms Lego Mindstorms is a hardware and software structure which develops programmable robots based on Lego building blocks. Each version includes computer Lego bricks, a set of modular sensors and motors, and Lego parts from the Technic line to ...

kits.

References

External links

*
Official WAVE website and Wyoming Area News Source

Official Wyoming Area Key Club Website

Wyoming Area Drama Club Website

Wyoming Area Band Website

Guidance Website

Wyoming Area BookEnds Website
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