District News

The BPSD will hold a school board meeting on Tuesday, April 20 at 7 p.m. The meeting will be held virtually. Click here to learn how you can join in.

Bethel Park families can purchase their Kennywood FunDay Tickets online any time or at the district’s in-person sale from 4-7 p.m., on Thursday, May 27 in the high school lobby.

This is friendly a reminder from the Bethel Park School District that all Bethel Park students, regardless of their socioeconomic status, are eligible to receive free breakfast and lunch meals through June 11, 2021.  

Bethel Park’s Dominic Cortopassi had himself quite a weekend at the PIAA State Swimming & Diving Championships at Cumberland Valley High School in suburban Harrisburg.

Bethel Park High School on Tuesday will host an anti-hate virtual assembly called, "No Place for Hate."  The 45-minute assembly is star-studded and made for students.

For a few weeks in March, third graders at Franklin Elementary intently followed Alaska’s world-renowned Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. 

The AIU's Pre-K Counts program provides eligible preschool children with comprehensive, in-home, or classroom programs designed to support school readiness skills.

Can't make rent because of COVID-19?  Apply for Allegheny County Emergency Rental Assistance to pay rent and utilities if you’ve lost income or experienced financial hardship due to the pandemic.

Bethel Park School District host Camp Invention, July 19-23, at Neil Armstrong Middle School. The cost of the five-day camp is $245. To learn more, call 1-800-968–4332 or visit invent.org/camp.

For the past month, students in Mrs. Katelyn Gensler’s seventh-grade reading class have been working diligently to create promotional trailers for various books they’ve read.  

Senior, Makayla Yee recently delivered approximately 120 COVID-19 hand-made care packs that she and her Girl Scouts troop created for the High School staff.

Author, Todd Strasser recently spoke virtually to students in Mrs. Kimberly Rehak’s Grade 6 reading class at NAMS about his famous novel, “The Wave,” and the mechanics of storytelling.
 

At a special meeting on Dec. 29, the Bethel Park Board of School Directors unanimously voted Dr. James Walsh as the next superintendent of schools.

This year, BPSD was able to provide no-cost meals to ALL District families with children ages 18 and under.  BPSD will still need to know which students are eligible for free or reduced-price school meals.

Congratulations to the 45 BPHS DECA members who participated in the first-ever Virtual PA DECA District III Career and Development Conference, which was held online from Nov. 30 – Dec. 4.  

BPSD seeks school bus drivers.  Our school bus drivers are highly valued members of our team as they are directly responsible for the safe transportation of students on a daily basis.

Students are not in our buildings as much as they typically have been in the past. However, one particularly creative first grade teacher has found a way to turn that challenge into an adventure of her students’ imagination. 

Close to 16,000 semifinalists were recently announced for the annual National Merit Scholarship Program, including Bethel Park seniors Katelyn Sams and Marissa Wycinsky.

Please click here to see some answers to Frequently Asked Questions about the Reopening of School for the 2020-2021 school year.

The Bethel Park School District is working diligently to reopen its schools on Tuesday, September 1.  Please click here to read a message from Interim Superintendent Dr. Joseph C. Dimperio dated August 13, 2020.

The Bethel Park School District will be using Schoology to deliver instruction to begin the 2020-2021 school year.  Please click here to see what you will need to do to make sure your children are ready to go on September 1.

Please click here to see a video produced by Bethel Park School District students and staff to commemorate the 57th Anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" speech.