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Yes, that is the way that the PIAA does their enrollment numbers. Boys and girls are completely separate. And they count three grades, 11, 10 and 9.

So NA at 1119, assuming that is the next cycle numbers, means that NA right now has 1119 boys in grades 9, 10 and 11.
Reading has double this (2273)!!! That's incredible. NA is the largest school in the WPIAL, but the only one with male enrollment over 1000. District 1 has 8 schools over 1000. Hazleton in District 2 has 1619 kids! District 3 (Harrisburg-Reading area) has 5 schools. Districts 4-5-6 has zero which makes sense it is fairly rural. District 7 only has NA. District 8 is Pittsburgh and has none. District 9 is the northern woods none. District 10 has Erie (which was 5 different HS's at one time) and has an enrollment of 1646. District 11 which is Allentown/Bethlehem has 5. District 12 is Philly which has 3.

District 11 which covers Allentown/Bethlehem/Easton/East Stroudsburg all the way down to has 47 high schools playing football District 1 is the suburbs all around Philly, so by far the most populous area has 67 high schools playing football, amazingly only 3 Single A, and 2 AA. WPIAL (District 7) has 109 schools!!!! 30 playing single A, 22 playing AA. You don't think the WPIAL needs some consolidation???
 
Reading has double this (2273)!!! That's incredible. NA is the largest school in the WPIAL, but the only one with male enrollment over 1000. District 1 has 8 schools over 1000. Hazleton in District 2 has 1619 kids! District 3 (Harrisburg-Reading area) has 5 schools. Districts 4-5-6 has zero which makes sense it is fairly rural. District 7 only has NA. District 8 is Pittsburgh and has none. District 9 is the northern woods none. District 10 has Erie (which was 5 different HS's at one time) and has an enrollment of 1646. District 11 which is Allentown/Bethlehem has 5. District 12 is Philly which has 3.

District 11 which covers Allentown/Bethlehem/Easton/East Stroudsburg all the way down to has 47 high schools playing football District 1 is the suburbs all around Philly, so by far the most populous area has 67 high schools playing football, amazingly only 3 Single A, and 2 AA. WPIAL (District 7) has 109 schools!!!! 30 playing single A, 22 playing AA. You don't think the WPIAL needs some consolidation???
The disparity between east and west is significant.

As an example, in the PIAA championship’s, district qualifying spots are dependent on how many schools in the district are in each class…

So in some sports in the largest classification, the WPIAL might only qualify 2 teams for PIAA Championships, while District 1 might qualify 5-6 teams. Sounds unfair but that’s the rules. It sucks for some WPIAL teams because a 3rd place WPIAL team can’t play for a state title and they might have just had a bad night in a semifinal…while in the Philly burbs they are sending their 5th and 6th placed teams. If you play for a large school in WPIAL, you better make it to the championship game or your season is over.

Contrarily, WPIAL qualifies 5-6 teams for PIAA state championships in Single A, while District 1 might only qualify 2.

Why? Did eastern PA schools merge years ago creating lots of large schools and few small schools? I’m guessing yes. Which is probably smart combining resources.
 
Yeah and fox chapel has 21% in poverty. Shaler has 37% in poverty and Baldwin has 42% in poverty. Yet you only crack on the areas that you don’t think you identify with politically. You do realize how school taxes work, right? If it was a poor area, they wouldn’t have the tax base for projects like the one you discussed. You’re being silly.

These numbers are all over the place. The link you provided showed Clairton was only 11%.

Here's the best:

Straight from PA D of Ed

It gives the percentage of low-income students based on the teacher's ability to get loan cancelation for working in a low-income district. So probably not exactly a poverty number but close:

Trinity 32%
Fox Chapel 17%
Belle Vernon 38%
Baldwin 37%
CV 25%
Clairton 81%

Rich schools for comparison
Peters 4%
NA 5%
USC 8%

Peters and NA are 2 lowest in the state. York City SD is the highest at 99.94%


Regardless of what the actual numbers are, it was an extremely unwise expenditure to build that facility. Perhaps there's some large corporations I'm not aware of? Fracking money? It just doesnt add up. If Trinity can build that, everyone can.
 
These numbers are all over the place. The link you provided showed Clairton was only 11%.

Here's the best:

Straight from PA D of Ed

It gives the percentage of low-income students based on the teacher's ability to get loan cancelation for working in a low-income district. So probably not exactly a poverty number but close:

Trinity 32%
Fox Chapel 17%
Belle Vernon 38%
Baldwin 37%
CV 25%
Clairton 81%

Rich schools for comparison
Peters 4%
NA 5%
USC 8%

Peters and NA are 2 lowest in the state. York City SD is the highest at 99.94%


Regardless of what the actual numbers are, it was an extremely unwise expenditure to build that facility. Perhaps there's some large corporations I'm not aware of? Fracking money? It just doesnt add up. If Trinity can build that, everyone can.
Remember Fox Chapel has Sharpsburg. That is probably where 95% of their "17%" comes from. Whereas NA or Peters has no such community.
 
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There is a technically 3A team (plays up in 4A) in district 1 that plays against all 6A teams. They just won the league championship. The problem they faced was none of the 5A teams in the area would step up to play 6A teams. The conference (Chesmont) was going to fold so their AD stepped up to save the league by agreeing to play against all 6A teams. Very cool story.
 
So in some sports in the largest classification, the WPIAL might only qualify 2 teams for PIAA Championships, while District 1 might qualify 5-6 teams. Sounds unfair but that’s the rules. It sucks for some WPIAL teams because a 3rd place WPIAL team can’t play for a state title and they might have just had a bad night in a semifinal…while in the Philly burbs they are sending their 5th and 6th placed teams. If you play for a large school in WPIAL, you better make it to the championship game or your season is over.


5th and 6th place teams? In the proposed basketball bracket for the next cycle, in 6A girls the WPIAL gets 3 teams in. District 3 gets 8. District 1 gets 11. No, that's not a typo. 11. And 19 of the 32 from two districts.

And the reason for that is that there are 123 6A girls schools in the next cycle. And 30 of them are in D3, and 43 of them are in D1. If you have 35% of the teams in the state in your district, you get 35% of the playoff spots.

In 6A boys it's going to be 4 from the WPIAL, 10 from D1 and 8 from D3.
 
5th and 6th place teams? In the proposed basketball bracket for the next cycle, in 6A girls the WPIAL gets 3 teams in. District 3 gets 8. District 1 gets 11. No, that's not a typo. 11. And 19 of the 32 from two districts.

And the reason for that is that there are 123 6A girls schools in the next cycle. And 30 of them are in D3, and 43 of them are in D1. If you have 35% of the teams in the state in your district, you get 35% of the playoff spots.

In 6A boys it's going to be 4 from the WPIAL, 10 from D1 and 8 from D3.
Exactly. That is crazy. Holy cow. Worse than I imagined.

I get the rule and why each district gets PIAA playoff spots based on the number of schools the district has in its classification…but 11 schools just isn’t right. 8 isn’t even right. You want to qualify for states? Reach your district semi. In your scenario in D3, every quarterfinalist makes states and in district 1 it’s even worse.

Just looking quickly at current Fall sports, looks like there is no consolation game for 4A soccer (largest classification) which means only two teams from WPIAL make states. District 1 has 5 teams. But how about this…in A and AA, District 1 only has one qualifier in each class.
 
Exactly. That is crazy. Holy cow. Worse than I imagined.

I get the rule and why each district gets PIAA playoff spots based on the number of schools the district has in its classification…but 11 schools just isn’t right. 8 isn’t even right. You want to qualify for states? Reach your district semi. In your scenario in D3, every quarterfinalist makes states and in district 1 it’s even worse.

Just looking quickly at current Fall sports, looks like there is no consolation game for 4A soccer (largest classification) which means only two teams from WPIAL make states. District 1 has 5 teams. But how about this…in A and AA, District 1 only has one qualifier in each class.

I mean if your district has 25% of the 6A teams, why shouldn't they receive 25% of the PIAA bids? Unless you institute some sort of NET rank like Joe loves, there's really no way to know that some farm team champion from Pennsytucky is any better than the 11th best team from the Philly suburbs.
 
The disparity between east and west is significant.

As an example, in the PIAA championship’s, district qualifying spots are dependent on how many schools in the district are in each class…

So in some sports in the largest classification, the WPIAL might only qualify 2 teams for PIAA Championships, while District 1 might qualify 5-6 teams. Sounds unfair but that’s the rules. It sucks for some WPIAL teams because a 3rd place WPIAL team can’t play for a state title and they might have just had a bad night in a semifinal…while in the Philly burbs they are sending their 5th and 6th placed teams. If you play for a large school in WPIAL, you better make it to the championship game or your season is over.

Contrarily, WPIAL qualifies 5-6 teams for PIAA state championships in Single A, while District 1 might only qualify 2.

Why? Did eastern PA schools merge years ago creating lots of large schools and few small schools? I’m guessing yes. Which is probably smart combining resources.
Not so much that they merged but more that PGH schools refuse to merge.
 
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I don't doubt that 1 bit. But the great majority still spend way more than they will get back from a financial perspective.
Yeah, there are a lot of parents that have a really wild notion about getting their kid a scholarship. I know a dad that logs game film like it's critical to their family's survival and she's really not that good. My kid plays club volleyball and I doubt I'll ever recoup what I spend, if you're looking at it from what a school will give her in scholarship money, but that's not why she plays. Sure, she wants to play in college but 5'9" front row players aren't really prevalent at the levels that pay a lot for athletic services. More than anything she just loves playing and enjoys the girls she's gotten to know. Playing against players she'll see on TV in a few years. Stuff like that.
 
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I mean if your district has 25% of the 6A teams, why shouldn't they receive 25% of the PIAA bids? Unless you institute some sort of NET rank like Joe loves, there's really no way to know that some farm team champion from Pennsytucky is any better than the 11th best team from the Philly suburbs.
The worst situation for a team sport in the PIAA is lacrosse. The best teams are from District 1 but they only break out classifications as AA and AAA. In AA, only 2 teams get to go to the state tournament while District 3 (Lancaster/Harrisburg area) send 5 and they are not very good. The classification breakout is even worse...you have schools with 200 boys trying to play against schools with 500 boys.
 
The worst situation for a team sport in the PIAA is lacrosse. The best teams are from District 1 but they only break out classifications as AA and AAA. In AA, only 2 teams get to go to the state tournament while District 3 (Lancaster/Harrisburg area) send 5 and they are not very good. The classification breakout is even worse...you have schools with 200 boys trying to play against schools with 500 boys.
Track and Field has the same problem. You're looking at the top end but the smallest schools are competing against schools that are sometimes as much as three times larger. There was a push this year to expand to three classifications but that was shot down. Logistics and trying to cram another championship into smaller districts was most likely the problem.
 
Track and Field has the same problem. You're looking at the top end but the smallest schools are competing against schools that are sometimes as much as three times larger. There was a push this year to expand to three classifications but that was shot down. Logistics and trying to cram another championship into smaller districts was most likely the problem.
Other then the team title, track and field is more of an individual sport but I am surprised they only have AA and AAA.
 
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