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Originally posted by Ship69 View Post
Most of the schools you mention should be able to field teams, especially Indiana and Marion Center. Some small schools do make the mistake of having too many teams. If you don't have many boys, it's probably a mistake to try and field both football and soccer in the fall. I know of a couple of small schools who've either added soccer to football or football to soccer programs. Instead of one competitive program, you usually end up with two mediocre or poor ones. It's an issue that probably defies easy solution.
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Originally posted by IUPNation View Post
In SEPA...the consolidations happened years ago. Small towns like Bridgeport and Conshohocken had their own high schools. In the 60's, they were merged into Upper Merion and Plymouth-Whitemarsh.
Norristown and Coatesville are two districts where the town the schools are named after have a large minority population but the district also includes the white majority townships that border them. Norristown High School is actually in West Norriton Township. Coatesville seems to work because they do well in sports. Their school taxes however are horrendous.
There are a few school districts with multiple high schools. West Chester (3), Downingtown (2) and Central Bucks (3) are probably the ones that you are thinking about.Cal U (Pa.) Class of 2014
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Originally posted by IUPNation View Post
In SEPA...the consolidations happened years ago. Small towns like Bridgeport and Conshohocken had their own high schools. In the 60's, they were merged into Upper Merion and Plymouth-Whitemarsh.
Norristown and Coatesville are two districts where the town the schools are named after have a large minority population but the district also includes the white majority townships that border them. Norristown High School is actually in West Norriton Township. Coatesville seems to work because they do well in sports. Their school taxes however are horrendous.
There are a few school districts with multiple high schools. West Chester (3), Downingtown (2) and Central Bucks (3) are probably the ones that you are thinking about.
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Originally posted by IUPNation View Post
Yes...but did you see the high school foosball scores across PA this year...most weeks it was a ton of blowouts among the lower classifications in the central and western end of the Commonwealth. You can literally see what schools are basically hanging on with their programs. I think some sort of reform needs to happen. Maybe high schools partner and consolidate their athletics. I don't know but the gap in competitiveness is widening and that's really not good for high school kids.
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Originally posted by Fightingscot82 View Post
In Western PA (PIAA Districts 7,8,10), the only districts with multiple high schools are Pittsburgh Public Schools, Crawford Central (Cochranton & Meadville), Penncrest (Cambridge Springs, Maplewood, Saegertown), and Warren (Eisenhower, Sheffield, Warren, Youngsville). Other than Pittsburgh (city only), they're all low-population rural regions too distant to consolidate high schools.
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Originally posted by jrshooter View PostAnd obviously, Central Dauphin and CD East.
Funny thing with the West Shore district -- in which I reside. The only consolidation between Red Land and Cedar Cliff is a combined band.
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