The Bloomsburg Area School District is one of the 500 school districts of Pennsylvania. The district covers the Town of Bloomsburg and Beaver Township, Hemlock Township, Main Township and Montour Township in Columbia County, Pennsylvania. The district encompasses approximately 81 square miles. According to 2000 federal census data, it serves a resident population of 17,860. In 2009, the district residents' per capita income was $14,741, while the median family income was $42,136 a year. In the Commonwealth, the median family income was $49,501 and the United States median family income was $49,445, in 2010. Bloomsburg University is located in the community. For the school year 2007-08, Bloomsburg Area School District provided basic educational services to 1,838 pupils. It employed: 143 teachers, 108 full-time and part-time support personnel, and 6 administrators. Bloomsburg Area School District received more than $7.8 million in state funding for school year 2007-08.
The district operates three elementary schools (grades Kindergarten through 5th), the largest being Memorial Elementary School, which has about 500 students. The other two schools are W.W. Evans Elementary School and Beaver Main Elementary School, which have about 45 and 20 students per grade, respectively.
US News and World Report ranked 21,000 public high schools, in the United States, based on three factors. First, the schools were analyzed for the number of students who achieved above the state average on the reading and math tests. Then they considered how the economically disadvantaged students performed against the state average. Finally, they considered the participation rate and the performance of students in college readiness by examining Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate test data. Bloomsburg Area High School was ranked Silver in 2011 and was listed as #1,560 of all high schools in the nation.
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