The Clearfield Area School District is a midsized, rural, public

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. The district is one of the 500 public school districts of Pennsylvania. It is located within the central and northern portion of Clearfield County,

Pennsylvania Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a U.S. state, state spanning the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern United States, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes region, Great Lakes regions o ...

. Clearfield Area School District encompasses approximately . The Clearfield Area School District serves the Borough of Clearfield and Bradford Township, Covington Township, Girard Township, Goshen Township, Knox Township, Lawrence Township and Pine Township. According to 2000 federal census data, Clearfield Area School District served a resident population of 20,215 people. By 2010, the district's population declined to 19,115 people. In 2009, the district residents'

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was $16,245 a year, while the

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was $37,134. In the Commonwealth, the median family income was $49,501 and the United States median family income was $49,445, in 2010. The educational attainment levels for the school district population (25 years old and over) were 85.5% high school graduates and 11.9% college graduates. The colors of the school district are red and black, and the

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is the bison. The mascot is modeled after the look of an

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Schools

Clearfield Area School District operates one combined middle/high school (7th-12th) and one elementary school (K-6th). *Clearfield Elementary School * Clearfield Area Junior/Senior High School *CASD Cyber Services K-12 or with Lincoln Interactive High school students may choose to attend Clearfield County Career and Technology Center for training in the construction and mechanical trades. The Central Intermediate Unit IU10 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. Closed schools in 2014: Bradford Township Elementary School, Centre, Clearfield Area Middle School, Girard-Goshen Elementary School (2012)

Extracurriculars

Clearfield Area School District offers a variety of clubs, activities and an extensive sports program.

Sports

The district funds: ;Boys: *

Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball games, bat-and-ball sport played between two team sport, teams of nine players each, taking turns batting (baseball), batting and Fielding (baseball), fielding. The game occurs over the course of several Pitch ...

- AAA *

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 (appro ...

- AAA * Cross Country - AA *

Football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...

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Golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various Golf club, clubs to hit a Golf ball, ball into a series of holes on a golf course, course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standa ...

- AAA *

Soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

- AA *

Swimming Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, such as saltwater or freshwater environments, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Swimmers achieve locomotion by coordinating limb and body movements to achieve hydrody ...

and

Diving Diving most often refers to: * Diving (sport), the sport of jumping into deep water * Underwater diving, human activity underwater for recreational or occupational purposes Diving or Dive may also refer to: Sports * Dive (American football), ...

- AA *

Tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ...

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Track and Field Track and field (or athletics in British English) is a sport that includes Competition#Sports, athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name used in North America is derived from where the sport takes place, a ru ...

- AAA *

Wrestling Wrestling is a martial art, combat sport, and form of entertainment that involves grappling with an opponent and striving to obtain a position of advantage through different throws or techniques, within a given ruleset. Wrestling involves di ...

- AAA ;Girls: *Basketball - AAA *Cross Country - AA *Golf - AAA *Soccer (Fall) - AA *

Softball Softball is a Variations of baseball, variation of baseball, the difference being that it is played with a larger ball, on a smaller field, and with only underhand pitches (where the ball is released while the hand is primarily below the ball) ...

- AAA *Swimming and Diving - AA *Girls' Tennis - AAA *Track and Field - AA *Volleyball - AA ;Middle School Sports: ;Boys: *Basketball *Football *Soccer *Track and Field *Wrestling ;Girls: *Basketball *Soccer (Fall) *Softball *Track and Field According to PIAA directory July 2012 Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletics Association, PIAA School Directory, 2012

References

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External links

* http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20060610091123/http://www.clearfield.org/education/district/district.php?sectionid=1 * https://archive.today/20130414123447/http://www.clearfield.org/shaw * Clearfield Area High School link https://web.archive.org/web/20070928020541/http://www.clearfield.org/education/club/club.php?sectionid=81 School districts in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania