Seneca Valley school district
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| Seneca Valley School District | |
| Location | |
|---|---|
| Harmony, Pennsylvania, USA | |
| Information | |
| Locale | southwestern Butler County, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Superintendent | Donald J. Tylinski, Ed. D. |
| Students | 7,575 |
| Faculty | 900 |
| Type | public |
| Grades | K-12 |
| Athletics | baseball, basketball, boys and girls, cheerleading, cross country, coed, football, golf, boys and girls, lacrosse, girls, soccer, boys and girls, softball, girls, tennis, boys ang girls, track and field, coed, volleyball, boys and girls Ice hockey |
| Motto | Proud of the Past, Committed to the Future |
| Mascot | Indian brave |
| Established | unknown |
| Homepage | http://www.svsd.net/ |
The Seneca Valley School District is the public school district serving nine municipalities in southwestern Butler County, Pennsylvania.
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[edit] Elementary schools
Each elementary school within Seneca Valley school district contains special education, art, music, physical education, library, technology, speech, hearing impaired, guidance, and instructional support facilities as well as five or six classrooms for each grade, with an average of twenty-five to thirty students per class.
[edit] Connoquenessing Valley Elementary School
Connoquenessing Valley Elementary School (C.V.E.) serves Zelienople, PA, Harmony, PA and environs, including parts of Jackson Township, Cranberry Township, and all of Lancaster Township. The school is located at 300 Pittsburgh Street in Zelienople, PA.
Recently, the school participated in Random Acts of Kindness Week, where students collected money for Relay for Life. A courtyard has been cleaned up near the school by students and volunteers. Also, the school has been visited by noted children's illustrator and graphic design professor Scott Nash.
[edit] Evans City Elementary School
Evans City Elementary School serves Evans City, PA, Callery, PA and environs, including Forward Township and parts of Jackson Township. The school is located at 345 Rear West Main Street (Pennsylvania Route 68) in Evans City, PA and is colocated with Evans City Middle School.
[edit] Haine Elementary School
Haine Elementary School serves primarily western Cranberry Township, PA. The school is located at 1516 Haine School Road in Cranberry Township, PA and is colocated with Haine Middle School.
Haine Elementary School recently received two Keystone Awards from the Pennsylvania Department of Education for Meeting Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) in three consecutive years for its students' results on the statewide PSSA testing. The school also boasts an active and involved Parent-Teacher Organization (PTO).
[edit] Rowan Elementary School
Rowan Elementary School serves primarily eastern Cranberry Township, PA and Seven Fields, PA. The school is located at 8051 Rowan Road in Cranberry Township, PA.
[edit] Middle schools
[edit] Grades 5-6
These middle schools were created with the intention of adjusting elementary students to high school. The schools use a "team-teaching" approach wherein students will have a classroom to which they are assigned, and the entire class will move to a different room for different classes such as science, math, or social studies. While the students stay with their same class, they experience changing teachers and changing classes for the first time.
[edit] Evans City Middle School
Evans City Middle School serves students who attended Evans City Elementary School and Connoquenessing Valley Elementary School. The school is located on 345A Rear West Main Street (PA Route 68) in Evans City, PA and shares a building with Evans City Elementary School.
The school's facilities include the "Little Creek Nature Trail", built by staff, students, and volunteers. Evans City Middle School has extensive involvement from its Parent-Teacher Organization (PTO) and local police who provide a D.A.R.E. program to its students.
[edit] Haine Middle School
Haine Middle School serves students who attended Haine Elementary School or Rowan Elementary School and is located on 1516A Haine School Road and shares a building with Haine Elementary School.
The school has an active Parent-Teacher Organization (PTO) which organizes events such as career fairs annually. The school also hosts its own PRIDE team, which organizes cleanups of the school's campus by its students.
[edit] Grades 7-8
[edit] Seneca Valley Middle School
Seneca Valley Middle School serves all students within the district and is located on the main campus in Harmony, PA. The current address of the school is 122 Seneca School Road, Harmony, PA 16037
The middle school is set up to adjust students further into high school life. While students freely change classes as in an American high school, five of their eight daily classes are all with teachers who teach on a team. These five teachers teach the same set of students on a "team" so that students will have classes with the same group of students and not have to deal with stresses on the same day, missing many classes for field trips, and so on. These teams also act as a microcosm of the high school atmosphere, instilling their own 'team spirit' on students and hosting team parties.
In recent times, the school has won many awards, most notably the 2005-06 Don Eicchorn Award for Middle School Excellence, recognizing it as one of the best middle schools in the state and the Keystone Award for Annually Yearly Progress on the PSSA. Individual teachers and teams have received numerous prestigious awards as well. Students have won awards for many activities within the school, including notable awards by the academic games team and consistent high performance by the school's choir.
The school offers a choir program, a student band, an option to learn foreign languages, classes in performing arts, and classes in various mediums of design. In addition, seventh grade students are required to take one term of each French, Spanish, Latin, and German intended as an introduction. Eighth grade students are required to take six weeks of three different home economics courses and six weeks of three different industrial shop classes.
The school recognizes many sports which compete amongst each other or against different schools. These sports include boys' and girls' basketball, cheerleading, cross country, football, boys' and girls' soccer, softball, swimming, table tennis, and wrestling. Competitive and non-competitive clubs include academic games, art club, chess and checkers club, computer club, environmental club, helping hands club, library club, newspaper, sportsman's club, video club, weight lifting club, word games club,yearbook committee, and rocketry club. The school provides bus transportation at 4:30 on most days and 5:45 on all days to facilitate participation in after-school activities.
[edit] High schools
The middle school, intermediate high school, and senior high school are located together on one main campus in Harmony, Pennsylvania.
The high schools are part of an 'open campus' system wherein students may on occasion have a class in a building they are not assigned to by grade and must walk to their class in the other building. The high schools also share most extracurricular activities and ensembles such as the band.
[edit] Seneca Valley Intermediate High School
Seneca Valley Intermediate High School (IHS) serves all students within the district and is located on the main campus in Harmony, PA.
The IHS includes facilities such as a 1,100-seat auditorium, gymnasium, swimming pool, weight room, music rooms, art rooms, and many biology and chemistry labs. A courtyard has been updated and facilitated within the school and is available to students.
[edit] Newspaper
The IHS publishes its own newspaper, the Raider Rumble.A wide variety of classes are offered to students within the IHS, mostly from students in 9th or 10th grade, though 11th and 12th grade students take classes within the building as well.
[edit] Seneca Valley Senior High School
Seneca Valley Senior High School serves all students within the district and is located on the main campus in Harmony, PA.
As of April 30, 2007, the new addition to the Senior High School has been opened for student use.
The senior high school's facilities include a small auditorium, gymnasium, music rooms, art rooms, industrial technology facilities, home economics facilities, special education facilities, and many science laboratories.
The Senior High School hosts a student-run preschool, publishes a literary magazine called the Raider Review, and a monthly newspaper, the Seneca Scout, which also distributes a magazine at the end of the school year.
[edit] Athletics
The baseball team took home the 2007 Pennsylvania state championship in Altoona, PA
The sports sponsored by the school district are girls' and boys soccer,girls' and boys' swimming and diving, girls' softball, boys' baseball, girls' and boys' track and field, girls' and boys' cross country, girls' and boys' tennis, football, cheerleading, girls' lacrosse, girls' and boys' tennis, girls' and boys' golf and wrestling.
Club sports include boys' hockey, who is second in the conference, and boys' lacrosse.
The district sold the naming rights of their football stadium; they will get $50,000 over 10 years to rename Raider Stadium as NexTier Stadium, after NexTier Bank. The stadium, which seats 2,000, was formerly known as Raider Stadium.
Other athletic facilities on campus include a 400 meter track with throwing and jumping pits, a baseball field, a softball field, several practice fields, a cross country trail, two gymnasiums, a natatorium, two weight rooms, and tennis courts. The school also provides some medical facilities and staffs trainers in case of injury.
Recently, the boys' swim team was cut down to five players after a hazing-like event occurred. After this event, many students were cut from the team, including the swim team captain who allegedly had not participated in the events, and suspended from school, along with head coach Tom Donati. Source
[edit] Notable Alumni
-Jason Conti- Class of 1992: Major League Baseball Player
-Zack Jackson-Class of 2002: Major League Baseball player: Milwaukee Brewers
-Kevan Smith-Class of 2005: Quarterback, Pittsburgh Panthers
-Da'Lynn Mills- Class of 2007: Track and Field, Sprinter, Pittsburgh Panthers
-Nick Marzock- Class of 2008: Musician
-Cory Mazzoni- Class of 2008: Baseball, North Carolina State recruit
