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The Tuscarora School District is a midsized, rural, public school district located in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. It serves: the borough of Mercersburg, as well as St. Thomas Township, Peters Township, Montgomery Township, and Warren Township. The district is one of the 500 public school districts of Pennsylvania.
— New Market Elementary School: Steve Lockard transferred from Carroll County Public Schools, where he had been superintendent since 2018. He has served as principal at Brunswick and Tuscarora ...
Tuscarora Nation history: There is also a Native American population (the Tuscarora Nation, one of the Six Nations of Haudenosaunee) with a deep history that has a historical presence in the school district. The Tuscarora reservation (founded in 1803) is located directly across the street from the middle school and high school, and is home to ...
Juniata County high school students may choose to attend Mifflin-Juniata Career and Technology Center for training in the construction and mechanical trades. The district also operates one middle school – Tuscarora Junior High School – and two elementary schools Juniata Elementary and East Juniata Elementary.
The district consists of four K-5 elementary schools (Saint Thomas, Mountain View, Mercersburg, Montgomery), one grades 6-8 middle school (James Buchanan MS) and one grade 9-12 high school (James Buchanan High School). Tuscarora, the name of the mountain on the western boundary, was named for the Tuscarora Nation, an Iroquoian-speaking tribe.
The Tuscarora Nation has unsuccessfully sought state recognition for decades. Most recently, in 2019, the Commission of Indian Affairs denied the tribe’s petition for recognition, calling it a ...
With the opening of Tuscarora High School (2010), and John Champe High School (2012), the new high schools still use the Potomac Falls design template but with an 1800 student capacity. When Riverside High School (HS-8) in 2015, and Rock Ridge High School (HS-7) opened in 2014 it had a 1,600 student capacity not the standard 1,800 because of ...
Centerville Elementary School in Frederick was awarded the National Blue-Ribbon award in 2017 also in the category of Exemplary High Performing Schools. [5] Centerville has over 1,000 students and PARCC (Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers) testing proficiency scores of 82.4% in math and 77% in language arts. [ 6 ]