| North Penn High School | |
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1340 Valley Forge Road , 19446 United States | |
| Coordinates | 40°14′06″N 75°18′55″W / 40.2351°N 75.3153°W |
| Information | |
| School type | Public |
| Opened | 1955 (original building), 1971 (current building) |
| School district | North Penn School District |
| Superintendent | Todd Bauer |
| CEEB code | 392155 |
| NCES School ID | 421728005345[1] |
| Principal | Kyle Hassler |
| Faculty | 214.8 FTEs[1] |
| Grades | 10–12 |
| Enrollment | 3,165 (As of 2022-2023) |
| Student to teacher ratio | 14.6:1[1] |
| Color(s) | Navy and Columbia blue |
| Nickname | Knights, Maidens |
| Publication | The Troubadour (literary magazine) |
| Newspaper | Knight Crier |
| Yearbook | The Accolade |
| Website | nphs |
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North Penn High School is a part of the North Penn School District and is located in Towamencin Township, Pennsylvania, about a mile outside of Lansdale, Pennsylvania and 25 miles northwest of Philadelphia, on Valley Forge Road, also known as Pennsylvania Route 363.
North Penn High School was created in 1955 as the result of a consolidation of seven school districts in Montgomery County (Hatfield Joint Consolidated, Lansdale Borough, Line Lexington Independent, Montgomery Township, North Wales Borough, Towamencin Township and Upper Gwynedd Township) to educate students from three former high schools: Hatfield High School, Lansdale High School, and North Wales High School.
The original North Penn High School building was an expansion of the building that had served as Lansdale High School since the 1930s. The former Hatfield and North Wales buildings were eventually converted to elementary schools. The North Wales building is still used for this purpose today. The Hatfield building, later renamed the E.B. Laudenslager Elementary School, was replaced by a newer building in 1971. The current North Penn High School was constructed in 1971 because of severe overcrowding at the original school. The former high school building, located on Penn Street in Lansdale, is now Penndale Middle School.
As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 3,138 students and 214.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 14.6:1. There were 785 students (25.0% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 50 (1.6% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[1]
Sophomores, juniors, and seniors are represented at the high school. Freshmen, although commonly the first year of high school, only occasionally attend certain classes, and are regularly enrolled in one of these three middle schools: Penndale Middle School, Pennbrook Middle School, and Pennfield Middle School. The middle schools enroll grades 7–9, while the elementary schools enroll grades K–6.
- ^ a b c d School data for North Penn SHS, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 1, 2022.