Jersey Shore Area School District

The Jersey Shore Area School District is a large rural, American, public school district that is located in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania and Clinton County, Pennsylvania. The district, which encompasses approximately 385 square miles (1,000 km2), is centered on the borough of Jersey Shore and serves the surrounding Lycoming County municipalities of Limestone Township, Bastress Township, Nippenose Township, Porter Township, Piatt Township, Anthony Township, Mifflin Township, Watson Township, Cummings Township, McHenry Township, Brown Township, and Salladasburg.

Jersey Shore Area School District
JSASD
Address
175 A&P Drive
Jersey Shore
, Lycoming County and Clinton County, Pennsylvania, 17740
United States of America
District information
TypePublic
Other information
Websitewww.jsasd.org
Map of Clinton County, Pennsylvania Public School Districts

It also encompasses Avis, Pine Creek Township, and Crawford Township in Clinton County.

It is one of the 500 public school districts of Pennsylvania.

History

The district was organized in 1966 by a consolidation of eleven smaller school districts. Per the 2000 US Census Bureau data, Jersey Shore Area School District served a resident population of 19,807. According to 2010 state census data, Jersey Shore Area School District served a resident population of 17,858. The educational attainment levels for the Jersey Shore Area School District population (25 years old and over) were 86.8% high school graduates and 13.7% college graduates.[1]

According to the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center, 41.3% of the district's pupils lived at 185% or below the Federal Poverty Level Archived 2015-08-10 at the Wayback Machine as shown by their eligibility for the federal free or reduced price school meal programs in 2012.[2] In 2009, the district residents’ per capita income was $16,201, while the median family income was $41,792.[3] In the Commonwealth, the median family income was $49,501[4] and the United States median family income was $49,445, in 2010.[5] In Lycoming County, the median household income was $45,430.[6] By 2013, the median household income in the United States rose to $52,100.[7] In 2014, the median household income in the USA was $53,700.[8]

The Jersey Shore Area School District operates five schools: Avis Elementary School, Jersey Shore Elementary School, Salladasburg Elementary School, Jersey Shore Area Middle School (6-8), and Jersey Shore Area High School (9-12). The district has a separate administration building. Nippenose Elementary School was closed in 2013 due to declining enrollment. No publicly funded technology and career school is available to students.

The BLaST Intermediate Unit IU17 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 criminal background check processing for prospective employees and professional development for staff and faculty.

Closed schools

Nippenose Valley Elementary School was located at 7190 South Route 44 Highway, Williamsport. The school was closed in June 2013 due to low enrollment.[9] On closure, the school had an enrollment of just 195 pupils in grades kindergarten through 5th.[10] In 2015, the school board sold the building at auction for $470,000. The board insisted one term of the sale was that the building could never be used as an educational facility.[11]

Extracurriculars

The district offers a wide variety of clubs, activities and sports.

Sports

The district funds:

Junior high school sports
  • According to PIAA directory July 2012 [12]

References
  1. proximityone (2014). "School District Comparative Analysis Profiles".
  2. Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center, Education Facts Student Poverty Concentration by LEA, 2012
  3. US Census Bureau, American Fact Finder, 2009
  4. US Census Bureau (2010). "American Fact Finder, State and County quick facts". Archived from the original on 2014-10-06.
  5. US Census Bureau (September 2011). "Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2010" (PDF).
  6. US Census Bureau (2014). "Pennsylvania Median household income, 2006–2010 by County".
  7. Michael Sauter; Alexander E.M. Hess (August 31, 2013). "America's most popular six-figure jobs". USA Today.
  8. Jeff Guo (September 15, 2015). "Lower wages for whites, higher wages for immigrants, and inequality for all". Washington Post.
  9. Williamsport Sun-Gazette (June 18, 2013). "Jersey Shore board shuts doors at Nippenose Valley Elementary".
  10. NCES, Nippenose Valley ES Common Core of Data, 2013
  11. Williamsport Sun Gazette, School sold at auction, December 13, 2015
  12. "PIAA School Directory". Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletics Association. 2012.
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