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28-515: The Indiana Area School District has four elementary schools. Two of these serve for grades K-3, and two serving for grades 4–5, and each serving a different part of the district. Ben Franklin Elementary School (K-3) and Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary School (4-5) serve Shelocta, Armstrong Township, west-central White Township, mostly the northwest corner of White Township, but also a small strip of western and southwestern White Township and

56-510: A $ 349,000 grant given to the senior high school's history program. In addition, graduating classes have averaged up to 40 more points on the Scholastic Aptitude Test than the national average. Each class graduates nearly 80% of its students into post-secondary education. Most attend Indiana University of Pennsylvania , located within the district. Many students who do not go on to post-secondary education choose to enlist in

84-418: A row from 1994 to 1997. Bethel Park High School has won 7 AAA Penguins Cups 1983 and 2012 including 5 AAA Pennsylvania State Titles in 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2005. Churchill High School won 9 WPIHL [Western Pa] AAA League Championships in 11 years including 2 prior to the inaugural Penguins Cup [1975] in 1973 & 1974 and won it in 1975, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982 and 1983 and four consecutive trips to

112-595: A solid understanding and adequate display of the skills included in the Pennsylvania Academic Content Standards. The Basic Level reflects marginal academic performance. Basic work indicates a partial understanding and limited display of the skills included in the Pennsylvania Academic Content Standards. This work is approaching satisfactory performance, but has not been reached. There is a need for additional instructional opportunities and/or increased student academic commitment to achieve

140-476: A student may score: advanced , proficient , basic , and below basic . The Pennsylvania Department of Education defines the four levels as follows. The Advanced Level reflects superior academic performance and excellent work ethic. Advanced work indicates an in-depth understanding and exemplary display of the skills included in the Pennsylvania Academic Content Standards. The Proficient Level reflects satisfactory academic performance. Proficient work indicates

168-423: A volunteer club, Builders' Club at the junior high school and Key Club at the senior high school. Key Club counts about 25% of the high school student body as members. Among the high school's 20+ clubs, there is also Future Business Leaders of America , Relay For Life , and many theater clubs. The entire district offers a wide variety of sports. The elementary schools have basketball, grouped by sex and grade. At

196-499: Is considered eligible content for each grade level tested. A Proficient or Advanced level is needed to be able to qualify as passing the PSSA. The PSSA applies to all public schools and districts, including charter schools and cyber charter schools. The questions are based on Common Core Standards and content expectations. The goal is to have 100% of students proficient or above in reading and math by 2014. There are four levels on which

224-900: Is not administered by the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association as are other high school sports. The Penguins Cup champions have been very successful against the Flyers Cup winners in the state championship Pennsylvania Cup which began in 1981. Between 1993 and 2003, the Penguins Cup champions won 28 of 33 Pennsylvania Cups, including nine consecutive class A titles from 1993 to 2002, and eight consecutive in AA, 1996 to 2003. Penguins Cup champions went on to win all three Pennsylvania Cups in 1989, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2006, and 2011; and in both AA and AAA in 1984 and 1987 before

252-481: The A division was added in 1989. In AAA, Meadville Area Senior High School has won the most cups, with eight. The team also won one cup in AA. From 1992 to 1996, Meadville won five consecutive Penguins Cup and Pennsylvania state championships. In AA, Bishop Canevin High School has won six cups. In A, Bishop McCort High School of Johnstown has six Penguins Cups and five state championships, including four in

280-615: The Braves. Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary School's colors are blue and gold, and their teams are known as the Eagles. East Pike Elementary School's colors are red and white, and their teams there are known as the Chiefs. Horace Mann Elementary School's colors are red and white, and its teams are known as the Warriors. The colors of both the junior and senior high schools are red and black, and

308-806: The Indiana Area Senior High School can be admitted into the Student Government Association. This organization helps set up the school's annual Teddy Bear Fund Drive and the annual Red Cross blood drive. Pennsylvania System of School Assessment The Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA) is a standardized test administered in public schools in the state of Pennsylvania . Students in grades 3-8 are assessed in English language arts skills and mathematics. Students in grades 4 and 8 are also assessed in skills relating to natural science , including

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336-526: The Indiana Area Senior High School, participating in the sports golf, cross country, swimming, indoor track and field, tennis, and spring track and field. A Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported the student was, "...possibly be the most unique athlete in WPIAL history." Student councils/governments are available for students in both the Indiana Area Junior and Senior High School to participate in. In

364-740: The Junior High School, the student council organization is known as the Student Council, or STUCO for short. In the high school, the student council organization is known as the Student Government Association, or SGA for short. Students in grades 6-8 are eligible to participate in the Junior High Student Council. The Student Council is a student-led organization dedicated to benefitting the Indiana Junior High School. Students attending

392-633: The October 16, 2010 edition of the Pennsylvania Bulletin. The transition to Common Core began during the 2010-11 school year, and it was fully implemented by July 1, 2013. Penguins Cup The Penguins Cup is a high school ice hockey tournament of over 80 high school ice hockey teams from western Pennsylvania . The tournament is run by the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Hockey League with

420-1061: The PIHL D-2 championship in the 2014–15 season The team made their first ever Penguins Cup Championship and State Championship appearance in the 2020-2021 season. During the 2018 season, the high school men's cross country team was the PIAA state runner-up in the AA division. The hockey team competes in the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Hockey League , while all other teams compete in the Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League , or WPIAL. Several high school athletes have gone on to participate in post-secondary sports teams in various sports, such as basketball, football, softball, cross country, track and field, and swimming. One Indiana High School alum earned 22 varsity letters in only 4 years of attending

448-565: The Pennsylvania State AAA Final in 1975, 1976, 1977 and 1979, winning in 1977 and 1979. Some schools have won Penguins Cups and state championships in different divisions. Pine-Richland High School won back-to-back state championships in 2006 and 2007 in AA before moving to AAA, where they won the 2008 Penguins Cup but lost the state championship. Greensburg Central Catholic High School won Penguins Cups in 1993 in A, and in 1992, 1994 and 1996 in AA. Prior to 1981,

476-522: The Proficient Level. The Below Basic Level reflects inadequate academic performance. Below Basic work indicates little understanding and minimal display of the skills included in the Pennsylvania Academic Content Standards. There is a major need for additional instructional opportunities and/or increased student academic commitment to achieve the Proficient Level. Districts must meet Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) in reading and math. To make AYP,

504-480: The armed forces, including the United States Marine Corps . Indiana Area School District offers a variety of extracurricular activities, the chief among them being sports. The junior and senior high school also offer clubs, with a majority of students participating in them. Both Indiana Area Junior High School and Indiana High School offer club programs for students. The largest among them is

532-610: The district. The Indiana Area School District consistently demonstrates that it is in the top tier of public school districts. Recently, it was ranked as one of the top 100 school districts by Offspring Magazine . The school district does especially well on standardized tests. It was once ranked third, out of 501 school districts, in scores on the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment given to all 5th, 8th, and 11th grade students, and has received numerous accolades for its journalism and social studies programs, including

560-529: The end of each school year, each school stages an "All-School Tournament," in which all players are eligible. IJHS offers students football, soccer, track and field, cross country, and girls' volleyball. The high school has even more selections. with boys' baseball, girls' softball, spring and winter track and field, tennis, golf, riflery, hockey, swimming, and diving. The elementary schools each have their own separate sports teams. Ben Franklin Elementary School's colors are green and gold, and their teams are known as

588-540: The field of data interpretation and analysis. Since 2013, high school students have taken the Keystone Exam in place of the PSSA for their standardized testing. The PSSA's were made by a company in New Jersey. The PSSA is written, owned and administered by Pearson Education. There are reporting categories for each subject which list eligible content to be tested in each grade. Assessment Anchors specify what

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616-711: The finals administered by the National Hockey League 's Pittsburgh Penguins franchise. Finals are held in three divisions: A, AA, AAA. The tournament was held at the Civic/Mellon Arena until it closed in 2010. The tournament determines the regional champions from western Pennsylvania. The winners in each division play the eastern Pennsylvania Flyers Cup champions in the Pennsylvania State High School Ice Hockey Championship . Ice hockey

644-938: The nature of science, biological sciences , physical sciences , and earth and space sciences . On July 1, 2010, the State Board of Education adopted the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics, which will replace the Mathematics standards adopted in 1999. In July 2010, the Board also adopted the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts, which will replace the Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening standards adopted in 1999. The regulations providing for these new academic content standards took effect upon their publication in

672-942: The school and district must meet target percentages with all students, as well as with every subgroup of 40 or more students, scoring at the Advanced or Proficient level. Schools which fail to meet AYP for two consecutive years are subject to sanctions, such as loss of funding and restaffing. Subgroups include: Economically Disadvantaged ( Title I ), Limited English proficiency , Students with Individualized Education Programs , Hispanic Americans, Native Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, White Students, and Multi-racial/Multi-ethnic Students. Math reporting categories include numbers and operations, measurement, geometry , algebraic concepts, and data analysis and probability . Reading reporting categories include reading comprehension skills as well as interpreting and analysis fiction and nonfiction texts. Science reporting categories include

700-412: The school district, and 3,000 students are currently enrolled in the system. The average graduation rate is 92%, and the average graduating class contains 250 students. Approximately 76% of all graduates enroll in some sort of post-secondary education. As of 2005, district employs 257 staff members, 202 of whom have their master's degree or above. On average, each staff member has 17 years of experience with

728-497: The softball team wears gray, pinstriped uniforms; the basketball teams wear black uniforms; and the hockey team has red, black, and white uniforms. The cross country, swimming and diving, boys' tennis, ice hockey, boys' and girls' basketball, and the track and field teams are Indiana's strongest teams. The boys' basketball team won the Class AAA WPIAL Championship in 2014–2015 season. The ice hockey team won

756-480: The team name is the "Indians" and their fight song is "Cherokee." This is taken from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania 's sports teams, which were previously known as the "Indians," and their fight song was formerly "Cherokee" as well. In general, most of the junior and senior high school's sports teams are outfitted in white uniforms. The football team also wears blood-red and black jerseys and pants;

784-510: The western third of Indiana Borough. East Pike Elementary School (K-3) and Horace Mann Elementary School (4-5) serve the eastern third of White Township, the northeastern corner of Indiana Borough, southern Indiana Borough and south-central and most of southwestern White Township. Indiana Area School District has two secondary schools. Indiana Area Junior High School (IJHS) contains grades 6-8, and Indiana Area Senior High School (IHS) contains grades 9-12. Approximately 32,000 people are serviced by

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