page_title: Old Forge School District
hierarchical_section_title: Old Forge School District
caption_attribution_description: Map of Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States Public School Districts
context_page_description: The Old Forge School District is a diminutive, suburban, public school district serving the municipality of Old Forge, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Scranton in Lackawanna County. The District is one of the 500 public school districts of Pennsylvania. The District encompasses 3 square miles. According to 2000 federal census data, it served a resident population of 8,798. By 2010, the District's population declined to 8,310 people. The educational attainment levels for the Old Forge School District population were 89.4% high school graduates and 22.6% college graduates.
  According to the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center, 41.7% of the 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. In 2009, the Old Forge School District residents' per capita income was $19,228, while the median family income was just $46,152. In Lackawanna County, the median household income was $43,673. In the Commonwealth, the median family income was $49,501 and the United States median family income was $49,445, in 2010.
context_section_description: The Old Forge School District is a diminutive, suburban, public school district serving the municipality of Old Forge, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Scranton in Lackawanna County. The District is one of the 500 public school districts of Pennsylvania. The District encompasses 3 square miles (7.8 km²). According to 2000 federal census data, it served a resident population of 8,798. By 2010, the District's population declined to 8,310 people. The educational attainment levels for the Old Forge School District population (25 years old and over) were 89.4% high school graduates and 22.6% college graduates.
  According to the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center, 41.7% of the 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. In 2009, the Old Forge School District residents' per capita income was $19,228, while the median family income was just $46,152. In Lackawanna County, the median household income was $43,673. In the Commonwealth, the median family income was $49,501  and the United States median family income was $49,445, in 2010.
  According to District officials, in school year 2007-08, the Old Forge School District provided basic educational services to 932 pupils. It employed 65 teachers, 35 full-time and part-time support personnel, and 6 administrators. In 2011 the enrollment K-12 was 925 pupils. In school year 2009-10, the Old Forge School District provided basic educational services to 933 pupils. The District employed: 70 teachers, 38 full-time and part-time support personnel, and increased to 7 administrators. Old Forge School District received more than $4.4 million in state funding in school year 2009-10.
  Old Forge School District has a cooperative agreement with Luzerne County Community College.
  Old Forge School District operates two schools: Old Forge Elementary School (K-6th) and Old Forge Junior Senior High School (7th-12th).
  The Northeastern Educational Intermediate Unit IU19 provides the District with a wide variety of services like specialized education for disabled students and hearing, speech and visual disability services and professional development for staff and faculty. Old Forge High School  students do not have access to Career Technology Center of Lackawanna County which is the region's vocational technical school.
caption: Old Forge Campus
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