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The Council Rock School District is located in lower Bucks County, in southeastern Pennsylvania. Its administrative offices are located in Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. It spends over US$ 9,000 per secondary student per year (not including special education students). Due to the typically high income of the student's families in the area, the district tends to contain more affluent students.

The district covers 72 square miles and is comprised of five Bucks County municipalities:

• Newtown Borough
• Newtown Township
• Northampton Township
• Upper Makefield Township
• Wrightstown Township

As of the 1990 census, the total population of the school district was approximately 60,000. The school district educates 12,000 students, K-12, and has approximately 956 teachers and supervisors, as well as clerical, custodial, maintenance and cafeteria employees who support the instructional program. The school district is by far the largest employer in the area. The school district operates fourteen schools total: ten elementary schools (grades K-6), three middle schools (grades 7-8), and two high school (grades 9-12). Council Rock is also one of four participating school districts in the Middle Bucks Area Vocational-Technical School located in Jamison, PA.[1]

Council Rock had only one high school until the 2002-2003 academic year, when the high schools split into CR-North (the Indians) and CR-South (the Golden Hawks). Before 1969, the high school was located in the building now used for the Newtown Middle School.

On November 8, 2006, two bomb threats were directed at both Council Rock High School South, and Council Rock High School North. Seven teams of bomb dogs went in to both high schools the next day. On January 23, 2007, another threat was found on a bathroom stall in Council Rock High School South.

The current Superintendent of Schools is Mark J. Klein, Esq.

Standard & Poor's performed an evaluation of the district in 2002.

• High Schools
  • Council Rock High School North
  • Council Rock High School South
• Middle Schools
  • Newtown Middle School
  • Holland Middle School
  • Richboro Middle School
• Elementary Schools
  • Goodnoe
  • Sol Feinstone
  • Newtown
  • Churchville
  • Hillcrest
  • Holland
  • Maureen M. Welch
  • Richboro
  • Rolling Hills
  • Wrightstown

The Council Rock School District has had several instances of labor difficulties in the past few years. The most prominent occurred when all teachers went on strike, delaying the start of the 2002/2003 school year. A yet unidentified person painted the word “Greed” on the main sign in front of Council Rock North, creating the most iconic image of the strike. (After unsuccessfully attempting to sandblast the sign, the district replaced it in late 2004.)

Another brief conflict with organized labor occurred on April 29, 2005, when 44 bus drivers staged a sickout to protest their contract. Their absence was barely noticed, as First Student, the company in charge of Council Rock's busses, filled the routes with temporary workers.

• Council Rock School District