Pine ridge Rd
Orbisonia, PA 17243

Citizens of Juniata County have voted to underfund the school district. In May 2011 a referendum would have raised property taxes costing ,on average, about $18 a month. It was soundly defeated. Unless there is a last minute bailout by the state, Juniata will hve no kindergarten, no agricultural ed., no business ed., no band, no sports teams at all in the 2011-20012 school year. Per pupil expenditures are #500 of the 501 school districts. The County has not been reassessed in 30 years!

The school has a dedicated teaching faculty with excellent principals who do their best with some of the lowest per student funding in the state. We out perform over 100 Pennsylvanian districts that spend more than us and we have only failed to make AYP (Annual Yearly Progress) because our because our special education population is barely large enough to be analyzed separately. I am proud to work at the school and I hope the district can survive to coming years of financial hardship. All because our community won't adequately fund education, even though we comfortably have the means to