Salisbury High School (Pennsylvania) Explained

Salisbury High School
Principal:Heather Morningstar
Type:Public high school
Address:500 East Montgomery Street
City:Allentown
State:Pennsylvania
Zipcode:18103-5225
Country:United States
Grades:9th12th
District:Salisbury Township School District
Enrollment:524
Enrollment As Of:2021–22
Campus Type:Suburb: Large
Staff:35.49
Ratio:14.76
Conference:Colonial League
Colors:Navy and White

Salisbury High School is a public high school located in Salisbury Township, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania. It is the only high school within the Salisbury Township School District.

As of the 2022–23 school year, the school had an enrollment of 524 students, according to National Center for Education Statistics data.

History

Salisbury Township was founded in 1834. In 1955, the construction for Salisbury High School was planned. Construction started in 1962 and was finished in 1963.

Until 2011, Salisbury High School served 10th through 12th grades, with ninth grade attending Salisbury Middle School. The high school underwent major renovations between 2009 and 2011, which included making space to move the district's 9th-grade students into the high school.[1]

Athletics

See also: Colonial League.

Districts

Salisbury participates in the Colonial League of the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association's District XI. The Colonial League includes Lehigh Valley high schools deemed too small to participate in the East Penn Conference.

See also: Colonial League.

Colonial League titles

Eastern Pennsylvania Conference championship

State championship titles

The school fields teams in most major sports, including boys baseball, boys and girls basketball, boys tennis, cheerleading, girls field hockey, girls softball, football, soccer, rifle, wrestling, and track and field.[3]

Teams

Salisbury has the Colonial League titles in Basketball and Baseball. The Field hockey team has never made a district appearance. The District Swimming Team won districts in 2012.Salisbury offers twenty-one varsity and twelve junior varsity sport programs.[4]

Varsity:
  • Boys:
  • Girls:

    Notable alumni

    References

    1. Web site: High School Construction / High School Construction . www.salisburysd.org . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20190202042059/https://www.salisburysd.org/Page/216 . 2019-02-02.
    2. Web site: EasternPAFootball - Your source for High School Football in Eastern PA . easternpafootball.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20041209093954/http://easternpafootball.com/ec.html . 2004-12-09.
    3. http://www.stsd.org/shs/sports/index.htm Sports
    4. Web site: PIAA School Directory . Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletics Association . 2013.

    External links