Stroudsburg Area School District is a large, suburban public school district located in the Poconos of northeast Pennsylvania. The headquarters are located on West Main Street in the Borough of Stroudsburg. Stroudsburg Area School District encompasses approximately 73 square miles (190 km2). According to 2000 federal census data, it serves a resident population of 138,678. In 2009, the district residents’ per capita income was $22,137, while the median family income was $56,546. In the Commonwealth, the median family income was $49,501 and the United States median family income was $49,445, in 2010. Per District officials, in school year 2007-08 the Stroudsburg Area School District provided basic educational services to 5,906 pupils through the employment of 488 teachers, 364 full-time and part-time support personnel, and 24 administrators. Stroudsburg Area School District received more than $18.9 million in state funding in school year 2007-08. The Superintendent of Schools is Dr. John A. Toleno.
Read more about Stroudsburg Area School District: Schools, Governance, Academic Achievement, Special Education, Budget, Dress Code, Food Fights, Renovating The High School, Blocking of Wikipedia, Extracurriculars
Famous quotes containing the words area, school and/or district:
“Whether we regard the Women’s Liberation movement as a serious threat, a passing convulsion, or a fashionable idiocy, it is a movement that mounts an attack on practically everything that women value today and introduces the language and sentiments of political confrontation into the area of personal relationships.”
—Arianna Stassinopoulos (b. 1950)
“... the school should be an appendage of the family state, and modeled on its primary principle, which is, to train the ignorant and weak by self-sacrificing labor and love; and to bestow the most on the weakest, the most undeveloped, and the most sinful.”
—Catherine E. Beecher (1800–1878)
“Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)