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• Schools

• Before and After School Care Program

• Kindergarten

• Developmental Guidance Program

• Curriculum

• Standardized Assessment Program

• Iowa Test of Basic Skills

• PSSA

• Reading Counts

 

Schools

Four (4) elementary schools, serving grades K through 4 and one (1) Intermediate School serving grades 5 and 6, are located throughout the district in an effort to equalize class size and provide quality instruction as close to the students' home as possible. The schools, their addresses, enrollment, phone numbers and administrators are:


HILLCREST INTERMEDIATE

11091 Mockingbird Drive

North Huntingdon, PA 15642

Phone: (724) 861-3015

Fax: (724) 864-7203

Rosemarie Dvorchak, Principal

Brian Henderson, Assistant Principal

Enrollment: 809

 

HAHNTOWN
791 Entry Road

North Huntingdon, PA 15642
Phone: (724) 861-3020

Fax: (724) 861-3020
Daryl Clair, Principal
Enrollment: 477

SHERIDAN TERRACE

1219 Morris Avenue

North Huntingdon, PA 15642

Phone: (724) 861-3025

Fax: (724) 863-4380

M. Joanne Elder, Principal

Enrollment: 467

STEWARTSVILLE
temporarily re-located (until August 2009) to

780 Brush Hill Road
North Huntingdon, PA 15642
Phone: (724) 861-3030

Fax: (724) 863-9010
Doreen Harris, Principal
Enrollment: 467

SUNSET VALLEY

11065 Dickens Drive

North Huntingdon, PA 15642

Phone: (724) 861-3035

Fax: (724) 863-4096

Natalie McCracken, Principal
Enrollment:  473

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Before and After School Care Services

Before school care will be from 7:00am to 8:45am and after school care will run from 3:45pm to 6:00pm in all elementary school buildings. The service will only run on days that classes are in session and is for students in grades 1 through 6. The "Safeguard," program, provided by Creative Adventures Inc., is licensed through the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare Day Care Division.

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Kindergarten

Kindergarten instruction is currently provided on a full-day or half-day basis to those students who have reached the age of 5. Students must reach the age of 5 before September 1st of each school year in order to be admitted to the kindergarten program. Transportation is provided by the district one way for kindergarten students: to the morning and full-day sessions and from the afternoon sessions. Parents are responsible for making the necessary arrangements from morning and full-day kindergarten sessions and to afternoon kindergarten sessions.

Children are assigned to the full-day class based on developmental need as indicated by the Brigance Early Screen and by lottery for any remaining roster openings.

 

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Developmental Guidance Program

A developmental guidance program operates in each elementary building to assist students to grow and mature. The counselors work to help the students and their families through the process.

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Curriculum

The approved curriculum for Norwin elementary schools revolves around instruction in the basic skills of reading, arithmetic, writing, science, social studies, music, art, health and physical education which are written, taught and appropriately tested. The curriculum is coordinated in such a way as to provide uniformity of instructional time throughout the entire elementary program. The success of the elementary program is regularly documented through the results of the yearly standardized tests. Those results continually place Norwin significantly above the national average of scores in these tests.

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Standardized Assessment Program

A comprehensive standardized assessment program exists at the elementary level in coordination with the overall curriculum. Assessments administered include:

• Iowa Tests of Basic Skills, Grades K through 7

• Cognitive Abilities Test, Grades 1, 4 and 6

• Pennsylvania System of School Assessments (PSSA), Grades 3 through 6
  

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Iowa Tests of Basic Skills

The results of the 2006 administration of the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills show the following for Norwin students:

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Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA)

The results of the 2006 administration of the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA) demonstrate that 3rd through 6th grade students in the district scored well above the state average in both reading and math.

RESULTS BY PERCENTAGE

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