page_title: White Deer Township, Union County, Pennsylvania
section_title: Education
hierarchical_section_title: White Deer Township, Union County, Pennsylvania / Education
caption_attribution_description: Map of Union County, Pennsylvania, United States Public School Districts
context_page_description: White Deer Township is a township in Union County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 4,273 at the 2000 census.
context_section_description: The local public school system is the Milton Area School District. It serves just over 2000 students. Enrollment is projected by the Pennsylvania Department of Education to decline significantly over the next ten years. In 2005, Standard & Poors reported the district's student teacher ratio was 13.9 to 1.
  Milton High School has an 89.9% graduation rate according to the district report card 2005-2006. In 11th grade, 49.4% were proficient in math. For reading 63.2% were proficient in  2005-2006. The high school is ranked 374th out of 606 public high schools in Pennsylvania.
  In 2007, the Pittsburgh Business Times ranked the district 356th out of 499 Pennsylvania school districts based on three years of Pennsylvania System of Student Assessment test scores.
  The Montandon Elementary School earned a No Child Left Behind Blue Ribbon Award for outstanding performance on the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment for 2005. The students scored 97.7% proficient or better in mathematics and 72.4% proficient in reading.
  The Milton Area School Board set the budget at $24.8 million for 2007-2008. The board levies a variety of taxes to support its programs. Taxes include 48.39 mills real estate tax in 2007 for district properties located in Northumberland County. For properties located in White Deer Township, Union County the real estate property tax was set at 10.10 mills.
  Voters rejected a tax referendum in May 2007. The proposal increased local earned income tax to reduce property taxes for primary homeowners and farmers.
  By law, the local public school must provide transportation to schools within 10 miles (16 km) of the borders of the school district at no charge to the student.
  Several alternative schools, including parochial and charter, are available in the region.
caption: Map of Union County, Pennsylvania Public School Districts
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