Lackawanna Trail High School

Infobox_School
name = Lackawanna Trail Junior-Senior High School


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established =
grades = 7 - 12
district = Lackawanna Trail School District
type = Public high school
principal = Mr.Rushefski
enrollment = 671 (as of 2005-06)
faculty = 46.5 (on FTE basis)
ratio = 14.4
nickname = Lions
conference =
colors = Red, Black, and White.
publication =
location = Factoryville, PA 18419
information = 570-945-5181
website = [http://www.ltsdhs.org School website]

Lackawanna Trail Junior-Senior High School is a secondary school located in Factoryville, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. The school mascot is "Lions".

Demographics

As of the 2005-06 school year, the high school had 671 students and 46.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), the school had a student-teacher ratio of 14.4. There were 114 students in 7th grade, 110 students in 8th grade, 117 students in 9th grade, 106 students in 10th grade, 114 students in 11th grade, 110 students in 12th grade and no ungraded students [http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=4212990&ID=421299004528 Lackawanna Trail Junior/Senior High School] , National Center for Education Statistics, accessed January 22, 2008.]

Athletics

The field hockey team won the 1985 Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association (PIAA) Class AA State Championship, defeating East Pennsboro High School 3-0 in the tournament final game played at Shippensburg. The school also has a rich history in football, with winning seven district 2 class A titles and nine lackawanna league championships, in the past eleven years under Coach Jeff Wasilchak. Wasilchak has since left Lackawanna Trail to teach and Coach at Lakeland High School in the 08-09 school year along with his brother Scot and other assistant coaches. [http://www.piaa.org/assets/web/documents/results/Fall/Field%20Hockey%20-%20Past%20Championships.pdf PIAA CHAMPIONS- Field Hockey] , Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed May 31, 2007.]

Dress code

There has been significant debate over the School's dress code and, in May 2007, the School Board decided that students could wear clothing with logos bearing the name of a manufacturer or a Lackawanna Trail insignia and would be allowed to wear multi-colored or stripped shirts with collars, and well maintained solid colored pants, including jeans. [ [http://www.newage-examiner.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=2310&dept_id=480505&newsid=18344625&PAG=461&rfi=9 "Factoryville - The Lackawanna Trail School Board agreed on Monday that it would vote on a dress policy for students at its May 21 meeting"] Wyoming County Press Examiner, May 16, 2007] [ [http://www.thetimes-tribune.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18371271&BRD=2185&PAG=461&dept_id=416046&rfi=6 "Trail OKs dress code"] , The Times-Tribune, May 22, 2007]

Notable alumni

* Keith Gavin, amateur wrestler, University of Pittsburgh, 2008 NCAA Champion at 174 lbs. Runner-up in 2007 NCAA Championships. [ [http://pittsburghpanthers.cstv.com/sports/m-wrestl/mtt/gavin_keith01.html Keith Gavin] , Pittsburgh Panthers, "Accessed January 19, 2008"]
* Jim Saxton (Hugh James Saxton), a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, graduated from Lackawanna Trail High School in 1961. [ [http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/s000097/ Washington Post – Members of Congress – Jim Saxton] .]
* Don Sherwood Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, who represented the 10th Congressional District of Pennsylvania, from 1999 to 2007. [ [http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S001146 Don Sherwood biography] , United States Congress. Accessed May 31, 2007.]

References

External links

* [http://www.ltsdhs.org/ Official site]
* [http://www.ltsd.org/ Lackawanna Trail School District]