Millcreek Township School District

Millcreek Township School District is a school district serving Millcreek Township, a suburb of Erie, Pennsylvania. The total enrollment is 7,464 students.[2] The district was the pilot district in the Start S.M.A.R.T. Program in 2002.[3]

Millcreek Township School District
Location
Millcreek Township, Pennsylvania
Millcreek Township
United States
District information
TypePublic
MottoPRIDE! is one of our products
GradesK-12
Established1805 (1805)
SuperintendentIan Roberts (Former Superintendent) [1]
Students and staff
Students7,464
ColorsBlue & White
Other information
Websitemtsd.org

Schools

The Millcreek Township School District is home to 10 schools.

Elementary schools
  • Chestnut Hill Elementary
  • Tracy Elementary
  • Belle Valley Elementary School
  • Asbury Elementary School
  • Grandview Elementary School

Middle schools
  • Walnut Creek Middle School
  • James S. Wilson Middle School
  • Westlake Middle School

Walnut Creek Middle School

From 2000-2002 students at the school worked with the Asbury Woods Nature Center in a project to assess the Walnut Creek watershed to help with public education and protection of the natural resource.[4]

The development of the nature center's educational program was one of a number of environmental education projects undertaken by students the school's science classes. A class, calling itself "Walnut Creek S.E.W.E.R." (Saving Erie's Water & Environmental Resources), also worked on projects to educate their community "about cleaner water, including a billboard and brochures, such as Your Lawn & Pesticides: What Goes Around, Comes Around," according to The Carnegie Reporter. "They have also worked with local officials to increase street sweeping, which reduces runoff into the water."[5] Asbury middle school

High schools

Technical/ Alternative Education
  • Millcreek Learning Center
  • North Coast School
  • Students in 10th Grade or above can take courses at [Erie County Technical School]

Notes
  1. "Millcreek Welcomes New Superintendent of Schools".
  2. Millcreek Township School District schools - district elementary, middle, and high school information
  3. "Millcreek Township School District: History". Archived from the original on 2004-12-12. Retrieved 2007-04-01.
  4. Web page about the "Walnut Creek Watershed Initiative" giving progress reports, at the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection's "Growing Greener" Web site, accessed March 25, 2007
  5. Baldwin, Joyce, "Civic Education in Schools: The Right Time is Now" article in The Carnegie Reporter, Vol. 2/No. 3, Fall 2003, published by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, accessed March 24, 2007

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