Stroudsburg Area School District

Stroudsburg Area School District is a large, suburban/rural public school district located in the Pocono Mountains in Northeastern Pennsylvania. The headquarters are located on West Main Street in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. Stroudsburg Area School District encompasses approximately 73 sqmi.

As of the 2022-23 school year, the district had 4,531 students across all of its schools and 343.5 teachers on a full-time employee basis for a student-teacher ratio of 13.19, according to National Center for Education Statistics data. The school budget was 2022-23 was $119.8 million.

According to 2000 federal census data, it served a resident population of 30,713. By 2010, the district's population increased to 36,502 people, and by 2015 declined to 35,787. In 2009, the district residents' per capita income was $22,137, while the median family income was $56,546. In Pennsylvania, the median family income was $49,501 and the United States median family income was $49,445, in 2010. The district is one of the 500 public school districts of Pennsylvania.

According to the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center, 44.1% of the district's pupils lived at 185% or below the Federal Poverty Level as shown by their eligibility for the federal free or reduced price school meal programs in 2012. In 2013 the Pennsylvania Department of Education, reported that 60 students in the Stroudsburg Area School District were homeless.

Schools
The Stroudsburg Area School District consists of five elementary schools, an intermediate elementary school, a middle school, a junior high, and a high school. There are four elementary principals as well as one at each of the other four school buildings. The intermediate school has one assistant principal, junior high 1.5 assistant principals, and the high school has three assistant principals.


 * B.F. Morey Elementary
 * Hamilton Township Elementary
 * Arlington Heights Elementary
 * Chipperfield Elementary School
 * Stroudsburg Middle School
 * Stroudsburg Junior High School
 * Stroudsburg High School

Stroudsburg High School students may choose to attend Monroe Career & Tech Institute for training in the trades. The Colonial Intermediate Unit IU20 provides the district with a wide variety of services like specialized education for disabled students and hearing, speech and visual disability services and professional development for staff and faculty.

W.H. Ramsey Elementary was closed by the school board due to declining enrollment district-wide, effective June 2014, followed by Clearview Elementary the following year.

Sports
The district funds:
 * Varsity:


 * Boys:
 * Baseball - AAAA
 * Basketball- AAAA
 * Cross country - AAA
 * Football - AAAA
 * Golf - AAA
 * Rifle - AAAA
 * Soccer - AAA
 * Swimming and diving - AAA
 * Tennis - AAA
 * Track and field - AAA
 * Wrestling - AAA


 * Girls:
 * Basketball - AAAA
 * Cheer - AAAA
 * Cross country - AAA
 * Field hockey - AAA
 * Rifle - AAA
 * Soccer - AAA
 * Softball - AAAA
 * Swimming and diving - AAA
 * Tennis - AAA
 * Track and field - AAA
 * Volleyball - AAA


 * Junior high middle school sports:


 * Boys:
 * Basketball
 * Football
 * Soccer
 * Wrestling


 * Girls:
 * Basketball
 * Field hockey
 * Softball
 * Soccer

According to PIAA directory July 2013