Elizabethtown Area School District

Elizabethtown Area School District
Type and location
Country	USA
District Info
Students and staff
District Mascot	Bears
Colors	Blue and White;
Other information

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The Elizabethtown Area School District is a school district in the Northwest corner of suburban Lancaster County, Pennsylvania that serves Elizabethown Borough and the townships of Conoy, and West Donegal, as well as the North and West part of Mount Joy Township. It is a member of Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit (IU) 13.

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Map of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Public School Districts. Elizabethtown Area School District is in pink in the North-West corner of the county.

2006 SAT: average scores Lancaster County schools
School District	Reading	Math	Writing	Total
Cocalico	473	489	467	1429
Columbia Borough	445	435	419	1299
Conestoga Valley	505	513	501	1519
Donegal	511	531	490	1532
Eastern Lancaster County	506	521	494	1521
Elizabethtown Area	501	520	490	1511
Ephrata Area	488	498	472	1458
Hempfield	522	565	505	1592
Lampeter-Strasburg	522	527	501	1550
Lancaster	449	448	448	1316
Manheim Central	503	520	491	1517
Manheim Township	547	565	535	1647
Penn Manor	492	513	474	1479
Pequea Valley	505	508	481	1494
Solanco	506	516	482	1504
Warwick	527	527	509	1563
County average	500	512	484	1496
Pennsylvania average	493	500	483	1476
U.S. average	503	518	497	1518
Possible on each test: 800 points _{Source: "Blame it on fried brains",} ^{September 21, 2006 Lancaster New Era}

Schools in the Elizabethtown Area School District include:

The high school has won state championships in field hockey in 1974, baseball in 1993.^[1] The district's Quiz Bowl Team was national runner up at the 2004 National Academic Championship.^[2]^{[citation needed]}

As of the census^[3] of 2000
- District Population: 27,485 people
- District Area: 56.0 square miles (145 km²)

School Colors - Blue and White
District Mascot - Elizabethtown Bears
School Nickname - "E-Town"
Member of the Lancaster-Lebanon 2 Sports League
EASD is home to one of the largest bands in Pennsylvania, with over 200 members.

Pennsylvania System of School Assessment 2005-2006 PSSA proficiency levels for Lancaster County schools
School District	3-5 Reading	3-5 Math	6-8 Reading	6-8 Math	9-12 Reading	9-12 Math
Cocalico [1]	67.7%	83.3%	82.7%	79.7%	63.4%	51.7%
Columbia Borough [2]	64.0%	71.1%	66.1%	56.9%	47.7%	25.2%
Conestoga Valley [3]	71.3%	82.1%	76.9%	75.5%	75.7%	68.0%
Donegal [4]	63.0%	69.2%	70.0%	62.1%	70.7%	57.2%
Eastern Lancaster County [5]	69.6%	84.0%	84.2%	78.8%	73.6%	58.4%
Elizabethtown Area[6]	70.6%	81.4%	80.9%	76.9%	72.1%	64.4%
Ephrata Area [7]	67.7%	82.8%	81.1%	71.0%	61.4%	65.0%
Hempfield [8]	80.3%	80.0%	81.3%	79.7%	75.7%	73.4%
Lampeter-Strasburg [9]	83.6%	83.0%	90.0%	84.2%	78.6%	70.1%
Lancaster [10]	45.6%	59.8%	46.5%	42.4%	41.5%	31.2%
Manheim Central [11]	72.1%	79.1%	77.9%	66.8%	74.2%	62.3%
Manheim Township [12]	80.1%	86.9%	90.4%	82.6%	82.7%	76.1%
Penn Manor [13]	70.8%	82.0%	78.3%	73.5%	78.1%	71.0%
Pequea Valley [14]	73.8%	83.9%	68.0%	70.1%	72.8%	56.5%
Solanco [15]	77.7%	83.9%	80.5%	75.1%	73.1%	54.6%
Warwick [16]	71.4%	83.0%	77.5%	75.1%	76.1%	62.5%
^{In some cases, 2 (or even 3) years were aggregated by Pennsylvania Department of Education}

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