Dover Area High School

4500 Intermediate Avenue

School District

Dover Area
Grade

9-12
Teacher/Student Ratio

1:16
Type

public

School Map for Dover Area School District

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Reviews

Submitted by student on May 30, 2023

Im a current student and this school is horrible. The bullying and fighting are more than out of hand and even after reported nothing happens.The teachers here cant teach well and hate their students.
Submitted by parent on December 07, 2022

its because teachers bothers you when you know what you are doing.
Submitted by parent on October 31, 2020

Excellent! My son was in private school during part of his elementary years but I transferred him to public to be challenged. Now he is number 1 in his class and his PSAT scores are remarkable, his grades are excellent and he is continuing to take AP and honors class all while in the marching band
Submitted by parent on November 12, 2018

As a parent of three children that all attend Dover school district I am very pleased with the schools. Parents have to get involved.
Submitted by student on June 09, 2015

I have been a student of this school for three years and it is absolutely baffling. The system in place to teach students removes any sort of connection to the teacher, exceptions only made when the teacher knows that to be human and to not act like a robot makes the experience worthwhile for all parties involved. This is heightened by the fact that, in a class with terrible students, any student who strives to learn and get good grades has to fight an uphill war. None of the staff members actually try to maintain the classroom, many teachers even laughing along with the students and wasting everybody's time. This has happened with at least one class every semester for the last three years. When the student who tries to learn like this gives up, they're the ones who get reprimanded by both teacher and the administration, while the root of the problem is untouched (the English department, though, is the exception, as well as some other teachers). Couple this with the unbearable stupidity of the administration's decisions (changing the set up of class structure every year, for example) and it's a sum of a school that is just intolerable.
Submitted by other on July 18, 2011

n October 2004 Dover Area School District changed its biology teaching curriculum to require that intelligent design was to be presented as an alternative to evolution theory, with Of Pandas and People to be used as a reference book. The plaintiffs successfully argued that intelligent design is a form of creationism, and that the school board policy violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. The ruling concluded that intelligent design is not science, and permanently barred the board from "maintaining the ID Policy in any school within the Dover Area School District, from requiring teachers to denigrate or disparage the scientific theory of evolution, and from requiring teachers to refer to a religious, alternative theory known as ID. "The eight Dover school board members who voted for the intelligent design requirement were all defeated in a November 8, 2005 election by challengers who opposed the teaching of intelligent design in a science class, and the school board president stated that the board did not intend to appeal the ruling.