Stroudsburg Area School District is a large, suburban/rural public school

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located in the

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Northeastern Pennsylvania Northeastern Pennsylvania (NEPA or Nepa) is a region of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania that includes the Pocono Mountains, the Endless Mountains, and the industrial cities of Scranton (the area's largest city), Wilkes-Barre, Pittston, Ha ...

, United States. The headquarters are located on West Main Street in

Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania Stroudsburg is a borough in and the county seat of Monroe County, Pennsylvania, United States. It lies within the Poconos region approximately five miles (8 km) from the Delaware Water Gap at the confluence of Brodhead Creek, McMichaels, ...

. Stroudsburg Area School District encompasses approximately . As of the 2023–24 school year, the district had 4,464 students across all of its schools and 350.32 teachers on a

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basis for a student-teacher ratio of 12.73, according to

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data. According to 2000 federal census data, it served a resident population of 30,713. By 2010, the district's population increased to 36,502 people, and by 2015 declined to 35,787. In 2009, the district residents'

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was $22,137, while the

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was $56,546. In Pennsylvania, the median family income was $49,501 and the United States median family income was $49,445, in 2010. The district is one of the 500 public school districts of Pennsylvania. According to the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center, 44.1% 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 2013 the Pennsylvania Department of Education, reported that 60 students in the Stroudsburg Area School District were homeless.

Schools

The Stroudsburg Area School District consists of five elementary schools, an intermediate elementary school, a middle school, a junior high, and a high school. There are four elementary principals as well as one at each of the other four school buildings. The intermediate school has one assistant principal, junior high 1.5 assistant principals, and the high school has three assistant principals. *B.F. Morey Elementary *Hamilton Township Elementary *Arlington Heights Elementary *Chipperfield Elementary School *Stroudsburg Middle School *Stroudsburg Junior High School * Stroudsburg High School Stroudsburg High School students may choose to attend Monroe Career & Tech Institute for training in the trades. The Colonial Intermediate Unit IU20 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. W.H. Ramsey Elementary was closed by the school board due to declining enrollment district-wide, effective June 2014, followed by Clearview Elementary the following year.

Extracurriculars

Sports

The district funds: ;Varsity: ;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 ...

- AAAA *

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 ...

- AAAA * Cross country - AAA *

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 ...

- AAAA *

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 *Rifle - AAAA *

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 ...

- AAA *

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

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- AAA *

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 ...

- AAA *

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 - AAAA *Cheer - AAAA *Cross country - AAA *

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 ...

- AAA *Rifle - AAA *Soccer - AAA *

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) ...

- AAAA *Swimming and diving - AAA *Tennis - AAA *Track and field - AAA *

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- AAA ;Junior high middle school sports: ;Boys: *Basketball *Football *Soccer *Wrestling ;Girls: *Basketball *Field hockey *Softball *Soccer According to PIAA directory July 2013

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