Paxtonia, Pennsylvania

Vaughn is an unincorporated community in Lower Paxton Township, Pennsylvania, United States in the Harrisburg-Carlisle Metropolitan Statistical Area, near the census-designated place of Paxtonia. The latitude is 40.322 and the longitude -76.785; the elevation is 541 ft.

Lower Paxton is a township in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 53,501 at the 2020 census. It is the most populous municipality in Dauphin County and the 17th-most populated municipality in the state.Lower Paxton Township is located 76.6 miles (123.3 km) miles southwest of Allentown, 9.4 miles (15.1 km) northeast of Harrisburg, and 107.3 miles (172.7 km) northwest of Philadelphia. The township was incorporated in 1767 from Paxton Township.

Linglestown is a census-designated place (CDP) in Lower Paxton Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States. It was founded and laid out in 1765 by Thomas Lingle. The population was 6,539 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Harrisburg–Carlisle Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Colonial Park is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Lower Paxton Township, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 13,229 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Harrisburg–Carlisle Metropolitan Statistical Area. It uses the Harrisburg ZIP code of 17109 and hosts a great deal of the area's retail activity, including the Colonial Park Mall.

Colonial Park Mall is a shopping mall in Lower Paxton Township, Pennsylvania, about 3 miles (4.8 km) NE of Harrisburg. Located at the northeast corner of U.S. Route 22 and Colonial Road in the Colonial Park CDP just east of Interstate 83 and south of Interstate 81, it serves the eastern and northern suburbs of the Harrisburg metropolitan area. The mall's anchor store is Boscov's. There are 2 vacant anchor stores that were once The Bon-Ton and Sears.

Fox Chase is a neighbourhood of Lower Paxton Township in metropolitan Harrisburg located in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.

Central Dauphin East High School is a large, suburban, public high school located in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. It is one of two high schools operated by the Central Dauphin School District. In the 2017–2018 school year, enrollment was reported as 1,472 pupils in 9th through 12th grades.

The Central Dauphin School District is a large, suburban, public school district located in suburban Harrisburg, Pennsylvania serving students in central and eastern Dauphin County. It is the largest school district in the county, the largest in the greater Harrisburg metropolitan area and is the 9th largest school district in Pennsylvania. The district serves the Boroughs of: Dauphin, Paxtang and Penbrook as well as Lower Paxton Township, Middle Paxton Township, Swatara Township and West Hanover Township. It was created in 1954, combining four smaller districts. The Central Dauphin School District encompasses approximately 118 square miles (310 km2). According to 2000 federal census data, it served a resident population of 83,750. By 2010, the district's population increased to 90,442 people. The educational attainment levels for the Central Dauphin School District population (25 years old and over) were 91.8% high school graduates and 30.4% college graduates.According to the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center, 39.3% of the district's pupils lived at 185% or below the Federal Poverty level as shown by their eligibility for the federal free or reduced price school meal programs in 2012. In 2009, Central Dauphin School District residents' per capita income was $23,896, while the median family income was $56,338. In Dauphin County, the median household income was $52,371. By 2013, the median household income in the United States rose to $52,100.High school students may choose to attend Dauphin County Technical School for training in the construction and mechanical trades. The Capital Area Intermediate Unit IU15 provides the district with a wide variety of services like specialized education for disabled students and hearing, speech and visual disability services and professional development for staff and faculty. Central Dauphin School District contracts Krise Transportation to operate its main transportation system & Boyo Transportation and Sweger Bus Lines for special services. The prior contractor was Durham School Services. At one point in the early 2000's the district had its own fleet and employees before deciding to contract out its transportation services.

Harrisburg Christian School is a private, coeducational Christian elementary, middle school and high school, located on the north side of the greater Harrisburg, Pennsylvania area in the village of Linglestown, Pennsylvania. The school was founded in 1955 by parents who believed "responsibility for the educational instruction of their children according to Scripture was theirs, not the states". Harrisburg Christian School is not operated by a local church, but has independent status, being “owned” by The Christian School Association of Greater Harrisburg. School parents and employees make up the membership of this Association. The school was located in as many as five different rented locations around the greater Harrisburg area between 1955 and 1965 before building its own elementary school building on its current location at 2000 Blue Mountain Parkway in Harrisburg PennsylvaniaOver the next forty years additions to the original building, the construction of two new buildings, and improvements to the school grounds have created an attractive and safe school campus. Harrisburg Christian School offers an educational program that integrates the historic Christian Faith into a college-preparatory academic program of instruction. HCS employs 30 full and part-time teachers with a total employee base of 47. The student enrollment for the 2007-08 school year is 290. HCS’s teacher-student ratio is 1:12.

The Diocese of Harrisburg (Latin: Diœcesis Harrisburgensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or diocese, of the Catholic Church in south central Pennsylvania in the United States. It is a suffragan diocese of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Philadelphia. The mother church is St. Patrick's Cathedral in Harrisburg. Pope Pius IX erected the diocese on March 3, 1868. As of 2023, the bishop of the Diocese of Harrisburg is Timothy C. Senior.

Bishop McDevitt High School is a private, Roman Catholic, co-educational high school in Lower Paxton Township, Pennsylvania, United States. It was founded in 1918 as "Catholic High School" in Harrisburg and renamed in 1957 to honor the memory of the Most Reverend Philip R. McDevitt, fourth bishop of Harrisburg and founder of the school.It is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg.

Central Dauphin High School is a public high school located in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, it is one of two high schools in the Central Dauphin School District, and the first built in the school district. In the 2017–18 school year, there were 1,707 students at the school.