Penncrest High School is a public four-year comprehensive high school in Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania,

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. It is a part of the

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. The district, and therefore the high school's attendance boundary, includes the following municipalities: Middletown Township,

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, Edgmont Township, and Upper Providence Township.

Demographics

As of the 2022-2023 school year, there were 1218 students enrolled in the school. Of these, there were 300 ninth-graders, 317 tenth-graders, 276 eleventh-graders, and 319 twelfth-graders. The majority, around 78.7%, of the school district identified as White, with 21.2% of students being minorities. Within this, 7.3% identified as Asian, 6.2% as two or more races, 4.7% as Black, 3.0% as Hispanic, and 0.1% as American Indian/Pacific Islander. The student body was 50% female and 50% male. 22.1% of the school was considered economically disadvantaged. 18.5% were enrolled in a special education program. 47% of Penncrest students took at least one AP Exam in May 2023.

Extracurricular activities

Clubs and societies

Honor Societies

* National Honor Society * Mu Alpha Theta (National Math Honor Society) *Rho Kappa (History Honor Society) * Pi Lambda Sigma (English Honor Society) *World Language Honor Society * Science National Honor Society

Clubs

*Emanon, theatre club *Filming South & Lincoln *World Language Honors Club *Lion's Paw Society *The Gryphon (literary magazine) * Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) *

Model UN Model United Nations, also known as Model UN (MUN), is an educational simulation of the United Nations, which teaches students about diplomacy, international relations, global issues, and how the United Nations is run. During a model UN confe ...

*Debate Club *Improv Club *Chess Club *Medical Scholars Club *Gay Straight Alliance *Asian Club *Fair Trade Club *Libertarians of Penncrest *Worldwide Pride

Academic teams

* Hi-Q – the oldest academic quiz competition in the United States, began in 1948. Delco Champions (1999, 2000, 2003, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2015), National Champions (2015) * Envirothon – PA State Champions (2000, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017), North American Champions (2000, 2005, 2009, 2017) *Physics Olympics – a regional competition combining problem solving and various construction oriented competitions. Penncrest holds two national records for consecutive championships and consecutive meets won. * Science Olympiad – PA State Champions (2014), PA State 2nd Place finalists (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013); National results: 8th in 2004; 11th in 2005; 5th in 2006; 7th in 2007; 8th in 2008; 6th in 2009; 4th in 2010; 4th in 2011; 14th in 2013; 8th in 2014

Music

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* Wind Ensemble
Roaring Lions

Marching Band A marching band is a group of instrumental musicians who play while marching. Historically they were used in armed forces and many marching bands remain military bands. Others are still associated with military units or emulate a military sty ...

Orchestra An orchestra (; ) is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families. There are typically four main sections of instruments: * String instruments, such as the violin, viola, cello, ...

Choir A choir ( ), also known as a chorale or chorus (from Latin ''chorus'', meaning 'a dance in a circle') is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform or in other words ...

*Jazz Band *Jazz Lab *Indoor Drumline *Indoor Color Guard *Symphonic Orchestra *Pit Orchestra

Sports

For the 2018–2019 school year. Penncrest competed in 12 interscholastic boys' sports and 11 girls' sports including boys'

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cross country running Cross country running is a sport in which teams and individuals run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain such as dirt or grass. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and soil, earth, pass through woodlands and ope ...

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, indoor and outdoor

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lacrosse Lacrosse is a contact team sport played with a lacrosse stick and a lacrosse ball. It is the oldest organized sport in North America, with its origins with the indigenous people of North America as early as the 12th century. The game w ...

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and

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, and

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. Girls competed in

field hockey Field hockey (or simply referred to as hockey in some countries where ice hockey is not popular) is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with 11 players in total, made up of 10 field players and a goalk ...

, indoor and outdoor

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and

, and

volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...

. Penncrest competes in the Central League, District One, of the

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(PIAA). In 2005, the ice hockey team won the state championship. In 2014, the boys' lacrosse team won the PIAA state championship.

Notable alumni

* Jeff Ayars, American filmmaker and actorSchool Notes
''The Philadelphia Inquirer''. Accessed June 22, 2020. * Stephen Bloom, a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 2011 to 2019. * Paul DiMeo, cast member of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition *

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, Ph.D., award-winning author and international scholar. * Kenneth A. Oye, political science professor at

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and early contributor to regime theory *

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, American economist and the winner of the 2003

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* Ronald Yeaw, US Navy SEAL and former commander of

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* Auston Trusty, professional soccer player for

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* Jonah Jackson, NFL player for the

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* Bill Whitaker, television journalist and a correspondent on the CBS News program ''60 Minutes'' * Bruce Roth, American chemist and the inventor of Lipitor(atorvastatin)

References

External links

Penncrest High School
{{authority control Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania Public high schools in Pennsylvania Educational institutions established in 1955 Schools in Delaware County, Pennsylvania 1955 establishments in Pennsylvania