PHOENIXVILLE HIGH SCHOOL
Profile of Phoenixville Area School
District
The basics: Serves
Phoenixville Borough, and East Pikeland and Schuylkill Townships; 3,400
studnets; $33.6 million budget for '97-'98; superintendent is Robert Urzillo.
In the news: Conservative,
taxpayer-controlled board watches spending and pushes basics; feasibility
study on building needs due fall '97.
Points of pride: Academic
standards and benchmarks in workds for math and language arts; standardized
test scores on rise; foreign languages taught at elementary level.
Academic first aid: Expanded
instructional support teams to include all elementary schools and middle
schools; peer tutoring and after-school help.
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