The Line Mountain School District is a small, rural public school district serving portions of

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. The district covers an area of . Municipalities within its boundaries are the borough of Herndon and multiple townships, including Lower Augusta Township, Little Mahanoy Township, Zerbe Township, West Cameron Township, Jackson Township, Upper Mahanoy Township, Washington Township, Jordan Township, and Lower Mahanoy Township. According to 2000 federal census data, it served a resident population of 8,975. By 2010, the district's population increased to 9,184 people. The educational attainment levels for the population 25 and over were 86.8% high school graduates and 10.3% college graduates. The district is one of the 500 public school districts of Pennsylvania. According to the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center, 38.4% of the district's pupils lived at 185% or below the

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as shown by their eligibility for the federal free or reduced price school meal programs in 2012. In 2009, the residents'

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was $16,400, while the

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was $41,919 a year. In the Commonwealth, the median family income was $49,501 and the United States median family income was $49,445, in 2010. In Northumberland County, the median household income was $41,208 in 2014. By 2013, the median household income in the United States rose to $52,100. In 2014, the median household income in the USA was $53,700.

History

Line Mountain School District was formed in 1966, when the Pennsylvania School District Reorganization Act of 1963 mandated the merger of Mahanoy Joint School District and Trevorton School District. The first class graduated from Line Mountain in 1967. The new district adopted the blue-and-gold school colors of Mahanoy Joint, later adding the red used by Trevorton. In 2007, the state conducted a study to examine the gains to be made through the consolidation of the Line Mountain School District into neighboring

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. The study noted that consolidation could significantly decrease school administrative costs for the communities while significantly improving offerings to students. The report was not acted upon; instead, Millersburg Area School District chose to merge with adjoining Upper Dauphin Area School District. From the formation of the school district, four elementary schools served the district: West Cameron Elementary School, Leck Kill Elementary School, Dalmatia Elementary School, and Trevorton Elementary School. West Cameron Elementary School was closed in 2001. In August 2012, facing additional budget shortfalls, the school board voted to close both Dalmatia Elementary School and Leck Kill Elementary School at the end of the 2012–13 school year. The district moved all elementary students to the renovated Trevorton Elementary School, which was renamed Line Mountain Elementary School.

Schools

*Line Mountain Elementary School (formerly Trevorton Elementary) K – 4th *Line Mountain Middle School – 5th through 8th * Line Mountain High School 9th through 12th High school students may choose to attend Northumberland County Career Technology Center for training in the trades. For the 2014–15 school year, 35 resident students chose to enroll in public, cyber charter schools, rather than attend the district's schools. The

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CSIU16 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.

Extracurriculars

Line Mountain School District offers a variety of clubs, activities and an extensive sports program. The district is not a member of the Pennsylvania Heartland Athletic Conference, which is a voluntary association of 28 PIAA High Schools within the central Pennsylvania region.

Sports

The district funds: Boys: *

Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding t ...

– AA Varsity and Junior varsity *

Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appr ...

– AAA *

Football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly ...

– AA *

Soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

– A *

Wrestling Wrestling is a series of combat sports involving grappling-type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. Wrestling techniques have been incorporated into martial arts, combat s ...

– AA Girls: *Basketball – AA *

Field Hockey Field hockey is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with ten outfield players and a goalkeeper. Teams must drive a round hockey ball by hitting it with a hockey stick towards the rival team's shooting ...

– A *Soccer (Fall) – A *

Softball Softball is a game similar to baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Softball is played competitively at club levels, the college level, and the professional level. The game was first created in 1887 in Chicago by George Hanc ...

– AA ;Junior High School Sports: Boys: *Basketball *Wrestling Girls: *Basketball *Field Hockey According to PIAA directory July 2017Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletics Association, PIAA School Directory, 2013

References

External links

Line Mountain School DistrictPennsylvania Department of Education entity information on Line Mountain School District
{{Northumberland County, Pennsylvania School Districts School districts in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania Susquehanna Valley