Saucon Valley High School


Saucon Valley High School is a four-year public high school in Lower Saucon Township, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is located at 2100 Polk Valley Road, in Lower Saucon Township within Northampton County.
It is the only high school in the Saucon Valley School District, which is consolidated in a single complex, the SVSD Campus, as of September 1999. The campus, spread across, combines the High School, Middle School, Elementary School, and administrative offices all under one roof, and also includes ball fields, playgrounds, stadium, and track facilities.
Its colors are red and black, and its mascot is the panther.

Academics

Graduation rate

Saucon Valley High School's four-year graduation rate for 2015–2016 was 88.5%. The five-year and six-year graduation rates were 96.1% and 96.6%.

Graduation requirements

By Pennsylvania State School Board regulations, for the graduating classes of 2016, students must demonstrate successful completion of secondary level course work in Algebra I, Biology, English Composition, and Literature for which the Keystone Exams serve as the final course exams. Students’ Keystone Exam scores shall count for at least one-third of the final course grade.

Eleventh grade

In 2010 and 2009 the school's 11th grade achieved AYP status under the federal government's No Child Left Behind law.
11th Grade Reading
11th Grade Math:
11th Grade Science:
According to a Pennsylvania Department of Education study released in January 2009, 17% of Saucon Valley High School graduates required remediation in mathematics and or reading before they were prepared to take college level courses in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education or community colleges. Less than 66% of Pennsylvania high school graduates, who enroll in a four-year college in Pennsylvania, will earn a bachelor's degree within six years. Among Pennsylvania high school graduates pursuing an associate degree, only one in three graduate in three years. Per the Pennsylvania Department of Education, one in three recent high school graduates who attend Pennsylvania's public universities and community colleges takes at least one remedial course in math, reading or English.

Athletics

Saucon Valley High School students participate in a range of sports, including football, baseball, softball, basketball, soccer, tennis, cross country, swimming, wrestling, field hockey, volleyball, lacrosse, golf, track, javelin, shot put, and more. The school competes in District XI tournaments, and is part of the Colonial League and PIAA. Eligibility to participate is set by school board policies.

Notable alumni