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Millcreek Township School District

Coordinates: 42°04′13″N 80°09′50″W / 42.0702°N 80.1638°W / 42.0702; -80.1638
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Millcreek Township School District
Location
United States
District information
TypePublic
MottoPRIDE! is one of our products
GradesK-12
Established1805; 219 years ago (1805)
SuperintendentDr. John Cavanagh
Students and staff
Students7,464
ColorsBlue & White
Other information
Websitemtsd.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

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The Millcreek Township School District is home to 10 schools.

Elementary schools

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

Middle schools

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

Walnut Creek Middle School

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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

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Technical/ Alternative Education

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

Notes

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  1. ^ Millcreek Township School District schools - district elementary, middle, and high school information
  2. ^ "Millcreek Township School District: History". Archived from the original on 2004-12-12. Retrieved 2007-04-01.
  3. ^ [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
  4. ^ [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
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42°04′13″N 80°09′50″W / 42.0702°N 80.1638°W / 42.0702; -80.1638