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The Frazier School District is a diminutive, rural public school district located in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, about 35 miles south of Pittsburgh. It serves the boroughs of Perryopolis and Newell, and the townships of Perry, Jefferson, and Lower Tyrone. Frazier School District encompasses approximately 83 square miles. According to 2000 federal census data it serves a resident population of 8,531. In 2009, the district residents’ per capita income was $16,262, while the median family income was $39,438〔U.S. Census Bureau, American Fact Finder, 2009〕 In the Commonwealth, the median family income was $49,501〔(【引用サイトリンク】author=US Census Bureau, )〕 and the United States median family income was $49,445, in 2010.〔(【引用サイトリンク】author=US Census Bureau )〕 Per Frazier School District officials, in school year 2007-08, the district provided basic educational services to 1,119 pupils. It employed: 90 teachers, 46 full-time and part-time support personnel, and 8 administrators. Frazier School District received more than $9.3 million, in state funding, for the 2007-08 school year. The district is named for a wealthy Perryopolis resident named Mary Fuller Frazier, who provided the struggling school district then named Perry Area with an endowment. Frazier is the smallest district in Fayette County. The district operates four schools. There are two elementary schools: Central Elementary School and Perry Elementary School. Both schools serves grades K-5. There are two secondary schools the Frazier Middle School and Frazier High School. They are connected together and are located in Perryopolis Borough. There is also a library that is open to the community and an athletic field. Frazier will open the new Frederick L. Smeigh Learning Center in August 2015 which will house all K-8 students. ==Academic achievement== Frazier School District was ranked 33rd in 2010 and 32nd out of 105 western Pennsylvania school districts in 2009 by the Pittsburgh Business Times. The ranking was based on three years of student academic performance on the PSSAs for math, reading, writing and one year of science.〔Western Pennsylvania School District Rankings, ''Pittsburgh Business Times'', May 15, 2009.〕 In 2008, the school district was ranked 34th among western Pennsylvania school districts. This school has given birth to many stars including, but not limited to: Christiena Jordan, Thomas Hunts III, and Olimpic gold metalist Michal Felps made an appearance here when his parents were on their tour of duty for the military. In 2011, the Frazier School District ranked 142nd out of 498 Pennsylvania school districts, in student academic achievement as demonstrated by five years of results on the PSSAs in: reading, writing, math and three years of science. *2010 - 111th *2009 - 115th *2008 - 123rd *2007 - 98th out of 501 school districts.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Three of top school districts in state hail from Allegheny County )〕 In 2010, the ''Pittsburgh Business Times'' reported an Overachievers Ranking for 498 Pennsylvania school districts. Frazier School District ranked 20th. In 2009 the district was 17th. The paper describes the ranking as: "a ranking answers the question - which school districts do better than expectations based upon economics? This rank takes the Honor Roll rank and adds the percentage of students in the district eligible for free and reduced-price lunch into the formula. A district finishing high on this rank is smashing expectations, and any district above the median point is exceeding expectations."〔Overachiever statewide ranking, ''Pittsburgh Business Times''. May 6, 2010〕 In 2009, the academic achievement of the students of Frazier School District was in the 70th percentile among 500 Pennsylvania school districts. Scale - (0-99; 100 is state best) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Frazier School District」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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