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Derry Township School District A Community Cultivating an Extraordinary Learning Environment

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Discover Derry Township School District
 
Overview
About DTSDDerry Township School District is an award-winning public school system located in Hershey, Pennsylvania.  Our community enjoys a legacy that began with founder Milton S. Hershey.  The district serves approximately 3,600 students in kindergarten through twelfth grade residing in Derry Township, Dauphin County..
 
Out 114-acre campus hosts five schools
All of our schools have exemplary facilities, curriculum, faculty, administrators, co-curricular and extra-curricular programs. Annually more than 90% of our graduating seniors pursue post-secondary education.
 
Hershey High School has also been recognized as one of the top public schools in America by different national publications.  At all assessed grade levels, statewide assessment scores are consistently well-above state and national averages.
 
Our collective goal is to be a model for how public education should - and can - function.
 

We cultivate an extraordinary learning environment for every child, evey day.

 
PDE
District Report Card
The federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) required Pennsylvania to develop standards for what a child should know and learn at all grade levels. The act also required states to develop a reporting system that measured the progress of local school districts toward meeting state-established benchmarks - Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) - linked to the standards. To meet the NCLB mandates, the Commonwealth's Department of Education annually produces an Academic Achievement Report.