Lehighton Area School District
The Lehighton Area School District is just north of the Blue Mountain range extending along the Lehigh River in Carbon County, Pennsylvania.
The district is composed of four communities which are served by the Lehighton Area School District over a sixty-seven-square-mile area. East Penn Township is to the south of the town/borough of Lehighton; Mahoning Valley is to the west along route 443 and Franklin Township is located on the east side of the river.
The school district contains one Elementary Center. The Lehighton Area Elementary Center includes full-day kindergarten and houses grades one through five.
The single middle school comprises grades six through eight in the renovated high school centrally located in the Lehighton borough. The middle school uses the team teaching approach having a maroon and white team per grade level that consists of four core teachers for each team (math, science, language, and social studies). The high school facility was built in 1993. It currently[when?] has 726 students, 56% male and 44% female. Its current[when?] graduation rate is 82%.[1]
Notable alumni
- Franz Kline, painter[2]
References
- ^ "Lehighton Area High School". Public School Review. Retrieved 2016-01-12.
- ^ http://www.tnonline.com/2010/sep/13/centennial-remembrance-franz-kline
External links
- District web site
- Lehighton Area School District Athletics
- Lehighton Sports Events[permanent dead link]
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