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==Education== ===Primary and secondary education=== {{Further|Allentown School District}} [[File:William Allen High School, Allentown PA.jpg|thumb|[[William Allen High School|Allen High School]] at 106 N. 17th Street, one of the city's two large public high schools]] [[Allentown School District]], founded in 1828 and currently Pennsylvania's fourth-largest school district, manages the city's public school system with the exception of a small portion of the city near Trexler Park, which is in [[Parkland School District]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st42_pa/schooldistrict_maps/c42077_lehigh/DC20SD_C42077.pdf|title=2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Lehigh County, PA|publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]]|access-date=2024-08-08}} - [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st42_pa/schooldistrict_maps/c42077_lehigh/DC20SD_C42077_SD2MS.txt Text list]</ref> As of the 2023-24 school year, Allentown School District had 16,510 students and 1,050 teachers for a student-teacher ratio of 15.72 on a [[full-time equivalent]] basis, and an annual school district budget of $414.939 million, according to [[National Center for Education Statistics]] data.<ref>[https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/districtsearch/district_detail.asp "Allentown School District"] at [[National Center for Education Statics]], 2023-24</ref> Allentown has two large public high schools for ninth through 12th grades, [[William Allen High School]], which serves students from Allentown's southern and western sections, and [[Louis E. Dieruff High School]], which serves students from the eastern and northern parts. Each of the city's high schools competes athletically in the [[Eastern Pennsylvania Conference]], an elite high school athletic conference, which includes the 18 largest high schools in the [[Lehigh Valley]] and [[Pocono Mountains|Pocono Mountain]] regions of the state. Both schools and [[Allentown Central Catholic High School]], the city's [[parochial schools|parochial high school]], play their home [[high school football|football]] games at [[J. Birney Crum Stadium]], a 15,000 capacity stadium, which is the largest high school stadium in the state and among the largest in the nation. Allentown School District's four middle schools, for grades 6β8, are: Francis D. Raub Middle School, Harrison-Morton Middle School, South Mountain Middle School, and Trexler Middle School. The city district has 16 elementary schools for kindergarten through fifth grade: Central, Cleveland, Hiram W. Dodd, Jefferson, Lehigh Parkway, Lincoln, Luis A. Ramos, McKinley, Midway Manor, Mosser, Muhlenberg, Ritter, Roosevelt, Sheridan, Union Terrace, and Washington. Allentown also has two public [[charter school]]s, [[Roberto Clemente Charter School]], located at 4th and Walnut streets in Allentown, which is a [[Title I]] charter school that provides educational services to mainly [[Hispanic]] students in grades 6 through 12, and [[Lincoln Leadership Academy Charter School]], located at 1414 E. Cedar Street, which serves students K to 12 students. Other Allentown-based parochial schools serving K to 8 students include Saint John Vianney Regional School, Holy Spirit School, Lehigh Christian Academy, Mercy Special Learning Center, Our Lady Help of Christians School, Sacred Heart School, and Saint Thomas More School. [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]]-affiliated parochial schools in Allentown are operated by the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Allentown]]. Grace Montessori School is a pre-school and early elementary [[Montessori education|Montessori]] school run as an outreach of Grace Episcopal Church. Allentown has one private [[Judaism|Jewish]] school, Jewish Day School, and two independent day schools, [[Salvaggio Academy]], an independent day school, and The Swain School, which is associated with [[Moravian Academy]]. Newcomer Academy at Midway Manor and Allentown School District Virtual Academy are parochial schools serving grades 8 to 12. ===Colleges and universities=== {{Further|Cedar Crest College|Muhlenberg College}} [[File:Muhlenberg College 04.JPG|thumb|The campus of [[Muhlenberg College]] at 2400 Chew Street, in March 2014]] Two four-year colleges, [[Cedar Crest College]] and [[Muhlenberg College]], are based in Allentown. The city is also home to a satellite campus of [[Lehigh Carbon Community College]] (LCCC), a comprehensive [[community college]] that offers two-year and four-year degree programs, continuing education, and industry training whose main campus is in [[Schnecksville, Pennsylvania|Schnecksville]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lccc.edu/coursesprograms/ |title=Course/Programs |publisher=[[Lehigh Carbon Community College]] |access-date=August 1, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090703143454/http://www.lccc.edu/coursesprograms/ |archive-date=July 3, 2009}}</ref> ===Libraries=== {{Main|Allentown Public Library}} Allentown also has a [[Allentown Public Library|public library]].
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