Salisbury High School | |
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Address | |
500 East Montgomery Street Salisbury Township Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania 18103-5225 United States |
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Coordinates | 40°35′3″N 75°26′32″W / 40.58417°N 75.44222°WCoordinates: 40°35′3″N 75°26′32″W / 40.58417°N 75.44222°W |
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Type | Public |
Established | 1963 |
School district | Salisbury Township School District |
Superintendent | Michael Q. Roth |
School number | (610) 797-4107 |
Principal | Heather Morningstar |
Enrolment | 577 (2013) |
Campus type | Suburban |
Color(s) | Navy and White |
Website | [1] |
Salisbury High School is a public, high school located in Salisbury Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania.
Salisbury Township was founded in 1834. In 1955, the construction for Salisbury High School was planned. Construction started in 1962 and was finished in 1963.
Salisbury High School achieved 85.8 out of 100. Reflects on grade level reading, mathematics and science achievement. In reading/literature - 84% were on grade level. In Algebra 1, 70% showed on grade level mathematics skills. In Biology, 58.7% showed on grade level science understanding. According to the Pennsylvania Department of Education, 2,181 public schools (less than 73 percent of Pennsylvania public schools), achieved an academic score of 70 or higher. Pennsylvania 11th grade students no longer take the PSSAs. Instead, they now take the Keystone Exams at the end of the associated course. This was the first year that school achievement was reported in this format instead of AYP.
Salisbury offers twenty-one varsity and twelve junior varsity sport programs.
Salisbury participates in the Colonial League of the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association's District XI. The Colonial League includes Lehigh Valley high schools deemed too small to participate in the Lehigh Valley Conference.
The school fields teams in most major sports, including boys baseball, boys and girls basketball, boys tennis, cheerleading, girls field hockey, girls softball, football, soccer, rifle, wrestling, and track & field.