- Council Rock School District
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Council Rock School District 
Address 30 North Chancellor Street
Newtown, Pennsylvania, Bucks, 18940
United StatesInformation Superintendent Mark J. Klein, Esq. Grades K-12 Mascot Indians (CR-North), Golden Hawks (CR-South) Website http://www.crsd.org/ The Council Rock School District also known as CRSD is located in lower Bucks County, in southeastern Pennsylvania. Its administrative offices are located in the Borough of Newtown. It spends over US$ 9,000 per secondary student per year (not including special education students). Due to the typically high income of the student's families in the area, the district tends to contain more affluent students and the district is predominantly white. The district operates two High Schools, three Middle Schools and ten Elementary Schools.
The district covers 75 square miles (190 km2) and comprises five Bucks County municipalities:
- Borough of Newtown
- Newtown Township
- Northampton Township
- Upper Makefield Township
- Wrightstown Township
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Overview
As of the 2000 census, the total population of the school district was approximately 70,000. The school district educates 12,000 students, K-12, and has approximately 956 teachers and supervisors, as well as clerical, custodial, maintenance and cafeteria employees who support the instructional program. The school district is by far the largest employer in the area. The school district operates fifteen schools total: ten elementary schools (grades K-6), three middle schools (grades 7-8), and two high school (grades 9-12). The district also operates the Sloan School for disruptive youth as an adjunct to the two high schools. Council Rock is also one of four participating school districts in the Middle Bucks Institute of Technology located in Jamison City, Pennsylvania.[1]
Council Rock had only one high school until the 2002-2003 academic year, when the high schools split into CR-North (the Indians) and CR-South (the Golden Hawks). Before 1969, the high school was located in the building now used for the Newtown Middle School. Prior to that, the high school was located in a smaller building on Chancellor Street in Newtown; a building that later became Chancellor Street Elementary school before closing in 2002. The Chancellor Street school was extensively modified, and reopened as the Chancellor Street Center, 1 of three buildings housing district administration. The other 2 buildings are the Sloan Alternative School, housed in space in Newtown Borough that is leased from the Law School Admissions Council, and the 101 Twining Ford facility in Richboro. The Twining Ford facility houses maintenance and records for the district. The site on Twining Ford Rd was originally the command and control center for a Nike Missile installation located nearby.
Standard & Poor's performed an evaluation of the district in 2002.
Schools in the Council Rock district
High schools
Middle schools
- Newtown Middle/Junior High School
- Holland Middle School
- Richboro Middle School
Elementary schools
- Goodnoe Elementary School, Newtown, Pennsylvania
- Sol Feinstone Elementary School, Newtown, Pennsylvania
- Newtown Elementary School, Newtown, Pennsylvania
- Churchville Elementary School, Churchville, Pennsylvania
- Hillcrest Elementary School, Holland, Pennsylvania
- Holland Elementary School, Holland, Pennsylvania
- Maureen M. Welch Elementary School, Churchville, Pennsylvania
- Richboro Elementary School, Richboro, Pennsylvania
- Rolling Hills Elementary School, Holland, Pennsylvania
- Wrightstown Elementary School, Wrightstown, Pennsylvania
Leadership
The current Superintendent of Schools is Mark J. Klein, Esq.
Board Members (Listed in order by which they joined the board):
- Richard Abramson, current term expires 12/2011
- Jerold Grupp, current term expires 12/2011
- Bernadette Heenan, current term expires 12/2013
- Paul Anagnostakos, current term expires 12/2013
- Patrica Sexton, current term expires 12/2011
- Robert Donnelly, current term expires 12/2013
- Dennis McMeniman, current term expires 12/2009
- Wendy Thomas,current term expires 12/2011
- Kyle Mckessy, current term expires 12/2013
Labor Troubles
The Council Rock School District has had several instances of labor difficulties in the past few years. The most prominent occurred when all teachers went on strike, delaying the start of the 2002/2003 school year. A person painted the word “Greed” on the main sign in front of Council Rock North, creating the most iconic image of the strike. (The sign was later moved to another location at the renamed Council Rock North, and replaced with a new sign identifying the school as Council Rock North.)
Another brief conflict with organized labor occurred on April 29, 2005, when 44 bus drivers staged a sickout to protest their contract. Their absence was barely noticed, as First Student, the company in charge of Council Rock's buses, filled the routes with temporary workers.
References
External links
Categories:- School districts in Bucks County, Pennsylvania
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