2000 Members of the school's student council participated in a discussion with the Lieutenant Governor on educational issues. There are 232 students in this school, and enrollment is growing. Lancaster students get excellent scores on the basic standards tests and there is an amazing technology center. Kids who learned how to produce Web sites when they were in 6 th grade are now in high school, teaching the younger kids what they know. These high schoolers create and run the school's Web pages, which lets parents, teachers and students stay in touch with what's going on.
Embroidery goes high tech with the school's computerized system.
But Lancaster has some challenges as well, the biggest of which is getting and keeping teachers. It's hard to get them to come this far north, so the district would like to see the state provide some incentives to attract educators. The fact that he can't hire unlicensed instructors who have years and years of excellent experience costs him some good teachers. People like the man teaching Industrial Arts who quit recently despite having been in his profession for years. He had plenty of great knowledge to impart to his students, but he didn't have a teaching license.