• School Board Vacancy-Effective November 17, 2023, a vacancy exists on the nine-member Board of Directors
    of the Bellefonte Area School District. The Board intends to appoint an individual to fill
    this vacancy through the first Monday of December 2025. Interested individuals must
    be at least 18 years of age and must have been a resident of the district for at least one
    year prior to the date of the appointment. 
    Letter of interest, resume, and application are due by noon on Monday, December 11,
    2023, to Leslie Elder (lelder@basd.net) or 318 North Allegheny Street, Bellefonte, PA
    16823. Candidates will be interviewed at 7 p.m. on December 14, 2023, at a special
    meeting of the Bellefonte Area School District Board of Directors at the Bellefonte Area
    Middle School cafeteria.

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    The New Superintendent Search is Underway!

    The Bellefonte Area School District (BASD) Board of Directors is pleased to announce that the search for their next superintendent of schools is underway! At the November 1, 2023 School Board meeting, the Board of School Directors approved a contract with DiRocco Education Consulting LLC: Keystone Superintendent Search Service to conduct a confidential search for our next superintendent. The District’s website will serve as our main source of information about the search process.

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  • Success Starts Here

    Success Starts Here

    Bellefonte Area School District is regularly featured on a website supported by the Pennsylvania School Board Association. The Success Starts Here campaign is a multiyear statewide effort to promote public schools from around the commonwealth. Since the 2018-19 school year, BASD has been the most publicized district in the commonwealth, according to PSBA.

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  • Global education

    Global education

    Bellefonte Area School District has a commitment to global education by providing opportunities for staff and students to teach and learn curriculum that integrates multiple-dimension teaching into everyday lessons -- through the world language department with Chinese and Spanish taught to students as early as kindergarten, along with providing support for staff who want enhance their own professional learning on this matter.

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  • Health, safety and security

    Health, safety and security

    Health, safety and security at Bellefonte Area School District is of utmost importance. That's why the district takes into consideration many safety and security efforts that often reach beyond our schools, staff and students, and also provides the community with information about illness prevention, mental health and more. Through this, two anonymous reporting applications are also available -- Safe School Helpline and Safe2Say Something.

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  • Diversity, equity and inclusiveness

    Diversity, equity and inclusiveness

    Bellefonte Area School District has a continuous goal to educate faculty, staff, students and the community on human differences -- and acceptance of those -- through diversity, equity and inclusiveness through efforts such as enhancing curriculum, creating a DEI committee and working with professionals who are experts in the mission. It's an initiative started under former Superintendent Michelle Saylor and is an ongoing effort.

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    COVID-19

    District chain of Command
    Have a question? Here's who to contact.


    Helping parents meet the needs of early learners is important to Bellefonte Area School District. If interested in exploring any of the following pre-K opportunities -- Head Start, Early Head Start or PA Pre-K Counts, please call CenClear at (814) 353-0791 or visit this link: CenClear

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                                                                                    Equal Opportunity and Nondiscrimination Notice

    The Bellefonte Area School District does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, religion, disability, or any other class protected by applicable law, within its employment and hiring practices, or otherwise within any of its in its activities or programs and provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups. For more information related to Title IX, please visit the Title IX page on our website. Inquiries to the School District’s Title IX Coordinator can be directed to:

    Mrs. Michelle Simpson
    318 North Allegheny Street
    Bellefonte, PA 16823
    msimpson@basd.net
    Phone: 814-355-4814, Ext. 3002

    The School District’s Board of School Directors’ Policies addressing Equal Opportunity and Nondiscrimination are available for review on this website. Inquiries to the School District’s Section 504 Coordinator can be directed to:

           Mrs. Jennifer Butterworth
         318 North Allegheny Street
         Bellefonte, PA 16823
             jbutterworth@basd.net
          Phone: 814-355-4814, Ext. 3021

    USDA Non-Discrimination Statement

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