Forest Area School District

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rdf:langString Map of Forest County, Pennsylvania with Municipal Labels showing Boroughs and Townships .

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rdf:langString Forest Area School District is a small, rural, public school district in northwestern Pennsylvania. It is the public school entity for all of Forest County. It serves the communities of Marienville and Tionesta, along with a portion of President Township in Venango County and Millstone Township in Elk County. The district encompasses approximately 500 square miles (1,300 km2). According to 2000 federal census data, it serves a resident population of 4,946. By 2010, the District's population increased to 8,255 people. The educational attainment levels for the Forest Area School District population (25 years old and over) were 80.9% high school graduates and 9.8% college graduates. The District is one of the 500 public school districts of Pennsylvania. According to the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center, 57.8% of the District's pupils lived at 185% or below the Federal Poverty Level [1] Archived 2015-08-10 at the Wayback Machine as shown by their eligibility for the federal free or reduced price school meal programs in 2012. In 2009, the District residents' per capita income was $14,370 a year, while the median family income was $33,333. In the Commonwealth, the median family income was $49,501 and the United States median family income was $49,445, in 2010. In Forest County, the median household income was $36,556. By 2013, the median household income in the United States rose to $52,100. In 2014, the median household income in the USA was $53,700.