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William Allen High School is one of two, large urban, public high schools of the Allentown School District located in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the United States. The school provides grades 9th through 12th. According to a report by the Pennsylvania Department of Education, 6% of its teachers were rated "Non‐Highly Qualified" under the federal No Child Left Behind Act.〔Pennsylvania Department of Education, Professional Qualifications of Teachers High School 2013, October 4, 2013〕 In 2012, William Allen High School had a teaching staff of 200, yielding a student-teacher ratio of 15:1.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=William Allen Senior High School Overview 2012 )〕 William Allen High School is located at 106 North 17th Street, Allentown. It serves students from the western and southern parts of the city. Allentown's other public high school, Dieruff High School, serves students from the city's eastern and northern parts. Until Dieruff's opening in 1959, William Allen High School was known as Allentown High School. The student body makeup is 53 percent male and 47 percent female, and the total minority enrollment is 82 percent. With 3,705 students in the 2006–2007 school year, William Allen High School was the largest high school in the city of Allentown, the largest high school in the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania, and the third largest high school in the state of Pennsylvania. In 2011, enrollment was reported as 3,115 pupils, with 220 teachers. By the fall of 2013, enrollment had declined significantly to 2,595 pupils. In 2013, 84% of pupils are eligible for a federal free or reduced price lunch due to the family meeting the federal poverty level. Additionally, 19% of pupils received special education services, while 5.7% of pupils were identified as being gifted. High school students may choose to attend Lehigh Career and Technical Institute for vocational training in the trades (). The Carbon-Lehigh Intermediate Unit IU21 provides the Allentown School District with a wide variety of services like specialized education for disabled students and hearing, speech and visual disability services and professional development for staff and faculty. In 2013, Allentown School District administration reported that it had lost 625 pupils to area public charter schools, local private schools and state approved public, cyber charter schools. The local charter schools include: Roberto Clemente Charter School, Lehigh Valley Dual Language Charter School, Medical Academy Charter School, and Lincoln Leadership Academy Charter School. ==History== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William Allen High School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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