Albert Gallatin Area School District

The Albert Gallatin Area School District is a large, rural, public school district located in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. It is named after Albert Gallatin former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, planner of the Lewis and Clark expedition, engineer of the financial details of the Louisiana Purchase, and founder of New York University. It serves the Boroughs of Masontown, Fairchance, Point Marion, and Smithfield. It also serves German, Springhill, Georges, and Nicholson Townships. It encompasses approximately 142 square miles (370 km2). According to 2000 US federal census data, Albert Gallatin Area School District serves a resident population of 25,282. By 2010, the District's population declined to 23,852 people.[1] The educational attainment levels for the Albert Gallatin Area School District population (25 years old and over) were 82.4% high school graduates and 11.9% college graduates.[2] The District is one of the 500 public school districts of Pennsylvania.

Albert Gallatin Area School District
Address
2625 Morgantown Road
Uniontown
, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, 15401
United States
District information
TypePublic
Students and staff
District mascotColonials
Other information
Websitewww.albertgallatin.k12.pa.us

According to the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center, 61.4% of Albert Gallatin Area School District's pupils lived at 185% or below the Federal Poverty Level as shown by their eligibility for the federal free or reduced price school meal programs in 2012.[3] In 2013, the Pennsylvania Department of Education, reported that 24 students in the Albert Gallatin Area School District were homeless.[4]

In 2009, Albert Gallatin Area School District residents’ per capita income was $14,454, while the median family income was $31,607.[5] In the Commonwealth, the median family income was $49,501[6] and the United States median family income was $49,445, in 2010.[7] In Fayette County, the median household income was $39,115.[8] By 2013, the median household income in the United States rose to $52,100.[9] In 2014, the median household income in the USA was $53,700.[10]

Albert Gallatin Area High School is part of the Albert Gallatin Area School District is located 7 miles (11 km) south of Uniontown, PA in the village of York Run, Georges Township. The southern end of the Albert Gallatin School District borders West Virginia. Pittsburgh is approximately 50 miles (80 km) north of AG High School and Morgantown, West Virginia is 20 miles (32 km) to the south.

Recent building improvements include a state-of-the-art stadium grass playing fieldThe school mascot is the Colonial. The school is locally known by its initials, AG.

History

Albert Gallatin Area School District [11] was formed in 1951, with one high school near Point Marion. The former high schools were turned into elementary and Jr. High Schools. In 1965, Fairchance-Georges and German Township School Districts joined AG. There were three high schools: Fairchance-Georges, German Township, and Albert Gallatin. In 1987, the District merged the three high schools into one at the Fairchance-Georges site and renamed it Tri-Valley Senior High School. Also, this year, they closed the Point Marion Elementary/Jr. High Building, keeping the present number of elementary schools to six. The Tri-Valley Name did not last long, as the school board in 1993, changed the name of the high school back to Albert Gallatin.

Schools

Albert Gallatin Area School District currently operates: five elementary schools, two middle schools, and one senior high school.

  • Albert Gallatin High School
  • Albert Gallatin South Middle School
  • Albert Gallatin North Middle School
  • A.L. Wilson Elementary School
  • D. Ferd Swaney Elementary School (permanently closed 2016)
  • Friendship Hill Elementary School
  • George J. Plava Elementary School
  • Masontown Elementary School
  • Smithfield Elementary School

Extracurriculars

The district offers a wide variety of clubs, activities and an extensive sports program.

Sports

The District funds:

According to PIAA directory July 2012 [12]

References
  1. US Census Bureau, 2010 Census Poverty Data by Local Education Agency, 2011
  2. proximityone (2014). "School District Comparative Analysis Profiles".
  3. Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center, Education Facts Student Poverty Concentration by LEA, 2012
  4. Collin Deppen (January 2015). "How many children are homeless in your school district?" (PDF). Pennsylvania Department of Education.
  5. US Census Bureau, American Fact Finder, 2009
  6. US Census Bureau (2010). "American Fact Finder, State and County quick facts". Archived from the original on 2014-10-06.
  7. US Census Bureau (September 2011). "Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2010" (PDF).
  8. US Census Bureau (2014). "Pennsylvania Median household income, 2006-2010 by County".
  9. Michael Sauter; Alexander E.M. Hess (August 31, 2013). "America's most popular six-figure jobs". USA Today.
  10. Jeff Guo (September 15, 2015). "Lower wages for whites, higher wages for immigrants, and inequality for all". The Washington Post.
  11. AGSD - History Archived 2011-09-03 at the Wayback Machine
  12. Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletics Association (2012). "PIAA School Directory Albert Gallatin Area School District".

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