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: | 9th–12th |
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.
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]
See also: Colonial League.
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.
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]
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]