Education

Lebanon County is home to an impressive, fouryear liberal arts college in Annville (Lebanon Valley College) and also home to a vitally important community college (Harrisburg Area Community College – Central Pennsylvania’s Community College). In addition, the county is home to two theological seminaries (one in Myerstown and one in Grantville), a highly-regarded career and technology center, several private high schools, and six public school districts.

Consistently named to “US News & World Report’s” “America’s Best Colleges” list under the “Regional College (North)” and “Best Value School” categories, Lebanon Valley College offers over 35 fields of study, as well as graduate and doctoral programs. LVC is a member of NCAA Division III, competing in the MAC Commonwealth Conference. It also plays ice hockey in the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) West conference.

HACC’s impressive urban-setting campus in downtown Lebanon was part of HACC’s outreach initiatives in the late 1980s when HACC’s president and its board of trustees decided to expand their services and build new campuses in several of the key communities of Central Pennsylvania – Lebanon, Gettysburg, and Lancaster. Now more than 20 years in the making, HACC’s efforts to expand educational opportunities through its branch campuses, including a campus in York, have been extremely successful. Thanks to a virtual learning partnership, HACC’s students experience 21st century technology while earning degrees, attending workforce training, and also transferring to earn bachelor’s degrees at dozens of colleges and universities in Pennsylvania.

Summit International School of Ministry in Grantville was founded in 1994 on a 100-acre campus near the foothills of the Blue Mountains. Summit offers a two-year program to prepare men and women to serve churches around the world. The Evangelical Seminary is a graduate school and interdenominational seminary in Myerstown. The Evangelical Seminary offers three master’s degrees: the Master of Divinity, the Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy, and the Master of Arts in Religion.

Public education in Lebanon County has always been one of the community’s strongest assets. In addition to six public school districts – Annville-Cleona, Cornwall-Lebanon, Eastern Lebanon County, Lebanon, Northern Lebanon, and Palmyra – our residents also have access to several outstanding, private, parochial schools and a renowned career and technology center, the Lebanon County Career and Technology Center.

Lebanon Valley College ................................................... www.lvc.edu HACC Central Pennsylvania’s Community College.............www.hacc.edu/Campuses/LebanonCampus/index.cfm Evangelical Seminary.......................................... www.evangelical.edu Summit International School of Ministry ................. www.summitpa.org

Annville-Cleona School District............................... www.acschools.org Cornwall-Lebanon School District.......................... www.clsd.k12.pa.us ELCO School District................................................... www.elcosd.org Lebanon School District ..................................www.lebanon.k12.pa.us Northern Lebanon School District ................................www.norleb.org Palmyra Area School District ..............................www.palmyra.pasd.us

Our Lady of the Cross ............................... www.ourladyofthecross.org New Covenant Christian School ................................. www.nccspa.org Milton Hershey School ............................................. www.mhskids.org Lebanon Valley Christian School .................................. 717-933-5171 Lebanon Christian Academy........................................www.lebanonchristianacademy.org Blue Mountain Christian School...................... www.bmcsdefenders.org