Salisbury Township School District | |
Address: | 1140 Salisbury Road |
City: | Allentown |
State: | Pennsylvania |
County: | Lehigh County, Pennsylvania |
Zipcode: | 18103 |
Country: | United States |
Type: | Public |
Budget: | $40.493 million |
Students: | 1,490 (2022-23) |
Teachers: | 102.7 |
Ratio: | 14.51 |
Schools: | Four, including Salisbury High School |
Conference: | Colonial League |
Colors: | Navy and White |
Grades: | K-12 |
Salisbury Township School District is a small, suburban, public school district located in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania. It serves Salisbury Township. The district encompasses approximately 11sqmi.
As of the 2022–23 school year, the school district had a total enrollment of 1,490 students between all its four schools, according to National Center for Education Statistics data, which include Salisbury High School for grades nine through 12, Salisbury Middle School for grades five through eight, Arts Academy Charter School for grades five through eight, and Salisbury Elementary School for kindergarten through fourth grade.
According to 2000 census data, the school district serves a resident population of 13,498. By 2010, The U.S. Census Bureau reported that Salisbury Township School District's resident population was 13,505 people.[1] In 2009, the district residents’ per capita income was $28,073, while the median family income was $62,534.[2] In the Commonwealth, the median family income was $49,501[3] and the United States median family income was $49,445, in 2010.[4] By 2013, the median household income in the United States rose to $52,100.[5] The educational attainment levels for the Salisbury Township School District population (25 years old and over) were 91.0% high school graduates and 28.9% college graduates.[6]
Salisbury High School students may choose to attend Lehigh Career and Technical Institute for training in the trades. The Carbon Lehigh Intermediate Unit, IU21, provides the district with a wide variety of services like specialized education for disabled students and hearing, speech and visual disability services and professional development for staff and faculty.
The school district's sports include:
According to PIAA directory July 2013 [7]