Salisbury High School (Pennsylvania)
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Salisbury High School is a public, co-educational
high school located in Salisbury Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania
, USA.
was started in 1753, and the educational system consisted of single room schools, however as time passed the need for an organized school district grew and Salisbury Township School District was officially founded in 1834. In 1955 the construction for Salisbury High School was planned, construction started in 1962 and finished in 1963.
There is a wide range of elective courses; many classes run with fewer students, often 10 to 30, than the maximum the state uses in its formula to determine building capacity.
Courses are designed to provide a general education and to prepare students for entrance into college or employment. Students enrolled in vocational and technical courses pursue their academic work at Salisbury High School and their laboratory work at Lehigh Career and Technical Institute
. Honors courses are offered in English, social studies, mathematics and science. Advance Placement courses are offered in biology, calculus AB, English composition and literature, European history, and United States history. In partnership with Lehigh Carbon Community College, Salisbury High School offers dual enrollment courses in science and art. Distance Learning in science and mathematics are available.
, SADD, Debate Club (2008 LVIDA Finalists and 2009 LVIDA Finals Champions) and Model UN organizations. Salisbury offers educational trips. One is the Bike and Boat program..
's District XI
. The Colonial League includes Lehigh Valley
high schools deemed too small to participate in the Lehigh Valley Conference
.
The school fields teams in most major sports, including boys baseball
, boys and girls basketball
, boys tennis
, cheerleading
, girls field hockey
, girls softball
, football
, soccer, rifle
, wrestling
, and track & field.
Salisbury has the most Colonial League titles in Basketball, with 10. Salisbury usually makes the playoffs in both Boys Soccer and Boys Basketball. The Field hockey team has never made a district appearance. The District Swimming team has never won a district, though proven undefeated throughout the normal season. Boys Soccer team gets their first district in 7 years beating Southern Lehigh their colonial Rival 2-1.
Southern Lehigh High School and Salisbury High School have been football rivals since the early 1970s, competing for "the old helmet trophy". Salisbury stole this helmet from them as a Senior Prank and since then, the two have been strong, and great, rivals. Salisbury has won the helmet 21 times, and Southern Lehigh High School
has won it 21 times, currently holding the championship of the helmet.
Coeducation
Mixed-sex education, also known as coeducation or co-education, is the integrated education of male and female persons in the same institution. It is the opposite of single-sex education...
high school located in Salisbury Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania
Salisbury Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania
Salisbury Township is a township in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. The township borders Allentown Bethlehem, and Emmaus, in the Lehigh Valley region....
, USA.
History
Salisbury TownshipSalisbury Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania
Salisbury Township is a township in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. The township borders Allentown Bethlehem, and Emmaus, in the Lehigh Valley region....
was started in 1753, and the educational system consisted of single room schools, however as time passed the need for an organized school district grew and Salisbury Township School District was officially founded in 1834. In 1955 the construction for Salisbury High School was planned, construction started in 1962 and finished in 1963.
Renovations
In 1989 due to the increasing size of the school's enrollment, renovations became needed. In 2002 the cafeteria was redone, and a second gymnasium was added. Plans to relocate the 9th grade from the Middle School building to the high school, including restoration of the 1962 building, a new wing, a new auditorium, and band room were approved; construction started after the 2008-2009 school year, with parts opening from autumn 2010 and other parts closing for reconstruction. In September 2011 the school will move over the Freshmen, who are located in the middle school building, which will create the new Salisbury High School holding Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors, and the Seniors. Block scheduling comes into effect for the 2011-2012 school year making the forty-two minute period into an eighty-minute block.Curriculum
Planned instruction in the following areas is provided to every student in the high school program: language arts, mathematics, science and technology, social studies, environment and ecology, the arts, the use of applications of computers and software, health, safety and physical education, and LifeSmarts. The following planned instruction is available to every student in the high school program: vocational-technical education, business education, world languages, technology education, and college level advanced placement courses.There is a wide range of elective courses; many classes run with fewer students, often 10 to 30, than the maximum the state uses in its formula to determine building capacity.
Courses are designed to provide a general education and to prepare students for entrance into college or employment. Students enrolled in vocational and technical courses pursue their academic work at Salisbury High School and their laboratory work at Lehigh Career and Technical Institute
Lehigh Career and Technical Institute
Lehigh Career and Technical Institute , located in Schnecksville, Pennsylvania, is one of the largest career and technical institutes in the United States...
. Honors courses are offered in English, social studies, mathematics and science. Advance Placement courses are offered in biology, calculus AB, English composition and literature, European history, and United States history. In partnership with Lehigh Carbon Community College, Salisbury High School offers dual enrollment courses in science and art. Distance Learning in science and mathematics are available.
Bill Paulik Court
The second gymnasium was built in 2000 that held to first basketball game in 2002. The gym use to be called the "New Gym", Now called Bill Paulik Court. Paulik won had a 30 year career with the Salisbury High School Boys Basketball team, having 539 wins and 241 loses. Paulik turned 80 years old this year when was honored on February 10, 2011, Senior Night for the Salisbury High School Falcons. The Falcons lost to their arch-rival Southern Lehigh 55-42 snapping the Falcons 11 game long winning streak. It was certainly a night to remember as Paulik a retired basketball coach, physical education teacher and athletic director who served for more than 30 years.Extracurricular activities and sports
Salisbury High School offers many extra activities, including a Key ClubKey Club
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, SADD, Debate Club (2008 LVIDA Finalists and 2009 LVIDA Finals Champions) and Model UN organizations. Salisbury offers educational trips. One is the Bike and Boat program..
Districts
Salisbury participates in the Colonial League of the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic AssociationPennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association
The Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association, Inc. is one of the governing bodies of high school and junior high school sports for the state of Pennsylvania, United States....
's District XI
PIAA District 11
District 11 of the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association is an interscholastic athletic association in Northeastern Pennsylvania. District 11 is one of the PIAA's 12 athletic conferences and comprises mostly high schools within the Lehigh Valley and a few surrounding counties. Member...
. The Colonial League includes Lehigh Valley
Lehigh Valley
The Lehigh Valley, known officially by the United States Census Bureau as the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ metropolitan area and referred to locally as The Valley and A-B-E, is a metropolitan region consisting of Lehigh, Northampton, Berks, and Carbon counties in eastern Pennsylvania and...
high schools deemed too small to participate in the Lehigh Valley Conference
Lehigh Valley Conference
The Lehigh Valley Interscholastic Athletic Conference is an athletic conference consisting of 12 large high schools from Lehigh and Northampton counties in the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania, in the United States...
.
- Boys Basketball:1971, 1976, 1987, 1989, 1996, 2010 (6)
- Baseball: 1980, 1985-1987, 1996, 2003, 2010 (7)
- Boys Soccer: 1985-1987, 1992, 2003, 2010 (6)
- Riffle Team: 2006 (1)
Colonial League Titles
- Boys Basketball:1977, 1978, 1983, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, 2001, 2003
- Baseball: 1994, 2008, 2009 (There are other years they are just unknown)
- Girls Basketball: 1989, 1990, 1993, 2010 (4)
The school fields teams in most major sports, including boys baseball
Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
, boys and girls basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
, boys tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
, cheerleading
Cheerleading
Cheerleading is a physical activity, sometimes a competitive sport, based on organized routines, usually ranging from one to three minutes, which contain the components of tumbling, dance, jumps, cheers, and stunting to direct spectators of events to cheer on sports teams at games or to participate...
, girls field hockey
Field hockey
Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...
, girls softball
Softball
Softball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 10 to 14 players. It is a direct descendant of baseball although there are some key differences: softballs are larger than baseballs, and the pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand...
, football
American football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
, soccer, rifle
Rifle
A rifle is a firearm designed to be fired from the shoulder, with a barrel that has a helical groove or pattern of grooves cut into the barrel walls. The raised areas of the rifling are called "lands," which make contact with the projectile , imparting spin around an axis corresponding to the...
, wrestling
Wrestling
Wrestling is a form of grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. A wrestling bout is a physical competition, between two competitors or sparring partners, who attempt to gain and maintain a superior position...
, and track & field.
Salisbury has the most Colonial League titles in Basketball, with 10. Salisbury usually makes the playoffs in both Boys Soccer and Boys Basketball. The Field hockey team has never made a district appearance. The District Swimming team has never won a district, though proven undefeated throughout the normal season. Boys Soccer team gets their first district in 7 years beating Southern Lehigh their colonial Rival 2-1.
Southern Lehigh High School and Salisbury High School have been football rivals since the early 1970s, competing for "the old helmet trophy". Salisbury stole this helmet from them as a Senior Prank and since then, the two have been strong, and great, rivals. Salisbury has won the helmet 21 times, and Southern Lehigh High School
Southern Lehigh High School
Southern Lehigh High School is a four-year public high school located in Center Valley, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is the only high school in the Southern Lehigh School District....
has won it 21 times, currently holding the championship of the helmet.
External links
- Salisbury High School homepage
- "Salisbury." Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. LehighCounty.Org. 4 Dec. 2007
- Schmehl, William L. F.. Salisbury Township: 1753-2003. 2nd. Emmaus: Total Imaging Inc., 2003.