Perkiomen Valley School District


The Perkiomen Valley School District is a school district based in central Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. It serves the boroughs of Collegeville, Trappe, and Schwenksville, and the townships of Lower Frederick, Perkiomen, and Skippack, in Pennsylvania. The district headquarters are in Perkiomen Township.
The district's mascot is the Viking.

History

The Perkiomen Valley School District was formed in 1969 through the merger of the Perkiomen Joint School District and the Schwenksville Union School District. Perkiomen Joint School District was, itself, a consolidation of Collegeville, Trappe, and Skippack Township, while Schwenksville Union School District had unified Schwenksville, Lower Frederick Township, and Perkiomen Township.
Its mascot and distinctive colors of orange and brown were elected by the students in the spring of 1969, after the merger was announced. Some alumni believe that the new mascot and colors were chosen by the administration – for some unexplained reason – without regard to the election results.
Perkiomen Valley High School, then housed in what had been the Collegeville-Trappe High School building, and the former Perkiomen Valley Junior High School, housed at the old Schwenksville High School, opened that fall. The current high school building, at 509 Gravel Pike, Graterford, Perkiomen Township, opened in the fall of 1976.
The original superintendent was the late Dr. U. Berkley Ellis, Jr.
U.S. News & World Report, in its 2018 list of best high schools in the United States, ranked Perkiomen Valley High School the ninth best high school in Pennsylvania.

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