Penncrest High School
Penncrest High School is a public four-year comprehensive high school in Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States, in the Philadelphia metropolitan area. It is a part of the Rose Tree Media School District. The district, and therefore the high school's attendance boundary, includes the following municipalities: Middletown Township, Media, Edgmont Township, and Upper Providence Township. Extracurricular activities. Sports. For the 2018–2019 school year. Penncrest competed in 12 interscholastic boys sports and 11 girls sports including boys baseball, basketball, cross country running, American football, golf, indoor and outdoor track and field, lacrosse, soccer, swimming and  diving, tennis, and wrestling. Girls competed in basketball, cross country running, field hockey, indoor and outdoor track and field, lacrosse, softball, soccer, swimming and diving, tennis, and volleyball. Penncrest competes in the Central League, District One, of the PIAA (Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association). In 2005, the ice hockey team won the state championship. In 2014, the boys lacrosse team won the PIAA state championship. Curriculum. Penncrest High School offers a variety of courses in a wide range of academic subject areas. Students are able to study courses in Art, Business Education, ESL, Family & Consumer Sciences, English, Mathematics, Music, Physical Education  & Health, Science, Social Studies, Special Education, Technology Education, and World Languages. More than 200 courses and 17 AP programs are offered. The rigor of courses at the school follows a four level setup: Advanced Placement (AP), Accelerated, Honors, and College Prep. Many juniors and seniors challenge themselves in the numerous Advanced Placement courses offered by the school. These include: AP English Language & Composition, AP English Literature & Composition, AP Calculus AB, AP Calculus BC, AP Statistics, AP Music Theory & Composition, AP Biology, AP Chemistry, AP Environmental Science, AP Physics 1, AP Physics C: Mechanics, AP US History, AP European History, AP  Microeconomics, AP Macroeconomics, AP US Government & Politics, AP French Language, AP Chinese Language, and AP Spanish Language, and AP Capstone (AP Seminar and AP Research). In the 2010–2011 school year, Penncrest also added Mandarin Chinese to its course offerings, attracting enough students to fill two classes. Since the 2013 school year, sophomores have been permitted to take select AP courses including AP Physics 1, AP Statistics, AP seminar, and AP European History.