Tussey Mountain School District | |
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Location | |
Bedford and Huntingdon Counties, Pennsylvania Broad Top area Pennsylvania, Bedford & Huntingdon 16678 (Main Office) United States |
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Information | |
Type | Public |
Superintendent | Mr. Mark Bollman |
Principal | Ms. Melinda Damiano (Sr. High School) |
Principal | Mr. Zachary Treece (Jr. High School) |
Principal | Mr. Wayland Heath (Elementary) |
Grades | Pre-K through 12 |
Gender | unisex |
Age range | 3–19 |
Language | English; offers French and Spanish |
Hours in school day | 7 |
Color(s) | Black and Red |
Song | Tussey Mountain Alma Mater (To the tune of Far Above Cayuga's Waters |
Fight song | On Wisconsin! |
Athletics conference | PIAA District V |
Mascot | The Tussey Mountain Titan |
Team name | Titans |
Rival | Northern Bedford County School District |
Newspaper | Titan Topics |
Website | http://tmsd.net/tmsd |
The Tussey Mountain School District is a public school district serving parts of Bedford County, Pennsylvania and Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. The rural district serves a large number of communities. In Huntingdon County, it encompasses the boroughs of Broad Top City, Dudley, and Coalmont as well as the townships of Carbon, Hopewell, Todd, and Wood. In Bedford County, it serves Coaldale and Saxton Boroughs, as well as Broad Top and Liberty Townships. The district encompasses approximately 173 square miles. According to 2000 federal census data, it serves a resident population of 7,689. According to District officials, in school year 2007–08 the TMSD provided basic educational services to 1,277 pupils through the employment of 99 teachers, 61 full-time and part-time support personnel, and 6 administrators. The Pennsylvania Department of Education projects the district's enrollment K-12 to decline to 900 pupils by 2019.
The district is named after a mountain of the same name just to the northeast of the area.
The district operates three elementary schools (All K-6), and a Junior/Senior High School (7–12).
The Tussey Mountain School District was ranked 469th out of 498 Pennsylvania school districts, in 2010, by the Pittsburgh Business Times. The ranking was based on student academic performance on four years of PSSA results in: reading, writing, mathematics and two years of science.