Millcreek Township School District

School district in Pennsylvania

Millcreek Township School District

Location
Millcreek Township, Pennsylvania Millcreek Township United States
District information
Type	Public
Motto	PRIDE! is one of our products
Grades	K-12
Established	1805; 219 years ago (1805)
Superintendent	Dr. John Cavanagh
Students and staff
Students	7,464
Colors	Blue & White
Other information
Website	mtsd.org

Millcreek Township School District is a school district serving Millcreek Township, a suburb of Erie, Pennsylvania. The total enrollment is 7,464 students.^[1] The district was the pilot district in the Start S.M.A.R.T. Program in 2002.^[2]

Schools

The Millcreek Township School District is home to 10 schools.

Elementary schools

Chestnut Hill Elementary
Tracy Elementary
Belle Valley Elementary School
Asbury Elementary School
Grandview Elementary School

Middle schools

Walnut Creek Middle School
James S. Wilson Middle School
Westlake Middle School

Walnut Creek Middle School

From 2000-2002 students at the school worked with the Asbury Woods Nature Center in a project to assess the Walnut Creek watershed to help with public education and protection of the natural resource.^[3]

The development of the nature center's educational program was one of a number of environmental education projects undertaken by students the school's science classes. A class, calling itself "Walnut Creek S.E.W.E.R." (Saving Erie's Water & Environmental Resources), also worked on projects to educate their community "about cleaner water, including a billboard and brochures, such as Your Lawn & Pesticides: What Goes Around, Comes Around," according to The Carnegie Reporter. "They have also worked with local officials to increase street sweeping, which reduces runoff into the water."^[4] Asbury middle school

High schools

McDowell High School
McDowell Intermediate High School

Technical/ Alternative Education

Millcreek Learning Center
North Coast School
Students in 10th Grade or above can take courses at [Erie County Technical School]

Notes

^ Millcreek Township School District schools - district elementary, middle, and high school information
^ "Millcreek Township School District: History". Archived from the original on 2004-12-12. Retrieved 2007-04-01.
^ [1] Web page about the "Walnut Creek Watershed Initiative" giving progress reports, at the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection's "Growing Greener" Web site, accessed March 25, 2007
^ [2] Baldwin, Joyce, "Civic Education in Schools: The Right Time is Now" article in The Carnegie Reporter, Vol. 2/No. 3, Fall 2003, published by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, accessed March 24, 2007

External links

Official website
Pennsylvania Department of Education information Web page for the district
Main Web page of the school district at Great Schools Web site

Erie County, Pennsylvania Schools

Public School Districts
Erie City	Erie High School Northwest Pennsylvania Collegiate Academy
Corry Area	Corry Area High School (partially located in Crawford and Warren Counties)
Fairview	Fairview High School
Fort LeBoeuf	Fort LeBoeuf High School
General McLane	General McLane High School
Girard	Girard High School
Harbor Creek	Harbor Creek High School
Iroquois	Iroquois Junior-Senior High School
Millcreek Township	McDowell High School
North East	North East High School (Pennsylvania)
Northwestern	Northwestern Senior High School
Union City Area	Union City Area High School (partially located in Crawford County)
Wattsburg Area	Seneca High School
Technical Schools	Erie County Technical School