Mahanoy Area School District serves Delano Township and neighboring Mahanoy Township. The district operates: Mahanoy Area Elementary School (K-4), Mahanoy Area Middle School (5th-8th) and Mahanoy Area High School (9th-12). The district has provided full day kindergarten since 2004. In 2015, the Mahanoy Area School District's enrollment continued to decline to a low of 1,004 pupils. Mahanoy Area School District was ranked 433rd out of 493 Pennsylvania school districts for academics, in 2015, by the Pittsburgh Business Times. Mahanoy Area High School has been listed on the Commonwealth's annual lowest achieving schools list. In 2015, Mahanoy Area School District's graduation rate was 91%. In 2012, Mahanoy Area School District declined to Warning Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) status, due to a low graduation rate and lagging student academic achievement in both reading and math. The high school missed all six reading and math metrics measured