About Us:

The Elk Lake School District and the Susquehanna County Career & Technology Center facility is unique because the school structure is a single centralized semi-two story facility all on one compound, totaling 285,384 square feet which equals 6.55 acres. Included is: kindergarten through 12th grade, and the Career & Technology Center which consists of seven diverse vocational training shops and accommodates students from neighboring school districts. We also host a Luzerne County Community College Satellite Program. In addition, we have a community park, pavilion and swimming pool, which are all available for use by the public. It is accurate to state that a student can attend kindergarten through 2 years of vocational training/college all under one roof at Elk Lake School District.In the above aerial photograph, the Elementary School is in the upper right with the light tan roof. The Jr.- Sr. High School is in the middle and lower left, mostly under the black roof. The Career & Technology Center is the section of building with the tan roof located to the right of the school busses and below the parking lot. Administrative offices are located in the small section of building with the tan roof, to the upper right of the parking lot where the school busses are located.

Elk Lake School District is located in rural northeastern Pennsylvania, the center of the district is approximately fifteen miles north of the town of Tunkhannock, twelve miles southwest of Montrose, and thirty-five miles east of Towanda.The Elk Lake School District originally consisted of 6 jointly operated, separate main schools and numerous "one-room schoolhouses" located in seven civil subdivisions (six townships and one borough) located in two Pennsylvania counties, Susquehanna and Wyoming. The school district was reorganized on July 1, 1966, as a single fourth-class district. The following townships and boroughs make up the Elk Lake School District: In Susquehanna County - Auburn Township, Dimock Township, Middletown Township, Rush Township, Springville Township. In Wyoming County - Meshoppen Borough and Meshoppen Township. The facility was built in three stages, the first in 1957, and an addition in 1968. The primary center was built in 1979, bringing the projected pupil capacity to 1,775 (elementary 975, secondary 800).The Susquehanna County Area Vocational-Technical School opened in September 1984. It was renamed to the Susquehanna County Career & Technology Center in 1999. The purpose of vocational education is to prepare both youth and adults for entrance into an occupation and to upgrade and refresh employed workers so they may maintain a satisfactory standard of living and enjoy the dignity of work.The new administrative offices and Aquatic Center were opened in 1991. This was the last part of the building that was constructed. The Aquatic Center joins the Primary Center (Elementary School) with the Jr. Sr. High School.