160:. The district encompasses approximately 216 square miles (560 km). According to 2000 federal census data, Connellsville Area School District serves a resident population of 38,303. By 2010, the district's population declined to 34,453 people. The educational attainment levels for the Connellsville Area School District population (25 years old and over) were 85.2% high school graduates and 11.6% college graduates. The district is one of the 500
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and was opened in 1967. The school building closed in 2013 and students now attend school in the former Junior High West building, which resulted in a $ 1.2 million renovation and the creation of West
Crawford Elementary School. In October 2015 the board voted to sell the building and associated lot
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Connellsville Area Middle School serves all district students from grades six to eighth. Originally constructed in 1956 as the
Connellsville Joint High School, then the high school upon consolidation in 1966 and lastly in 1970 served unil 2012 as one of two Junior High Schools in the district before
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was constructed in 1918 as the Dunbar
Township High School. As part of the 1966 district merger, the school became a Junior High School and remained unchanged until 1999, at which time the 1912, 1918, and 1942 sections were razed and an addition to the existing 1960 wing was made. The school was
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Saltlick Township. It was renamed in memory of the districts' first superintendent of schools in 1992. As a stipulation when it was named, upon its 2017 closure due to district-wide reorganization, its name was added to the Springfield Elementary
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was $ 35,638. In
Fayette County, the median household income was $ 39,115. In the Commonwealth, the median family income was $ 49,501 and the United States median family income was $ 49,445, in 2010. By 2013, the median household income in the United States rose to $ 52,100. In 2014, the median
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closed in 2012; students shifted to the combined
Connellsville Area Junior High School in the Connellsville Junior High School East building. It was for a short time Connellsville Area Junior High before becoming West Crawford Elementary School in
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as shown by their eligibility for the federal free or reduced price school meal programs in 2012. In 2013, the
Pennsylvania Department of Education, reported that 43 students in the Connellsville Area School District were homeless.
164:. Connellsville Area School District was established in 1966. It is considered a Second Class public school district due to its resident population exceeding 30,000, but being less than two hundred fifty thousand (250,000) people.
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Highlands Hospital for $ 207,000. Connellsville Area School Board voted unanimously to use the proceeds from the sale of the building toward technology and software upgrades in the district.
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574:"Connellsville Area board approves sale of closed school to Highlands Hospital"
493:"Lower wages for whites, higher wages for immigrants, and inequality for all"
663:"School board votes to close 4 elementary schools in Connellsville Area SD"
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Michael Sauter; Alexander E.M. Hess (August 31, 2013).
614:"Outdoor ice skating set to return to Connellsville"
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474:"America's most popular six-figure jobs"
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