Harrisburg School District

Harrisburg School District--Human Resources Department. The School District of the City of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania is a culturally diverse, urban school district in South Central Pennsylvania, with approximately seven thousand, four hundred (7,400) students. The City of Harrisburg proper is home to approximately fifty thousand (50,000). Rich in history, the City of Harrisburg, the Capital of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the seat of Dauphin County, is the hub of a metropolitan area of people in South Central Pennsylvania. Now the regional center of finance, transportation, commerce, recreation, special events, entertainment, history, arts and government, Harrisburg is approximately one-hundred (100) miles from Philadelphia, two-hundred miles from Pittsburgh, one-hundred seventy (170) miles from New York City, eighty-one (81) miles from Baltimore and one-hundred six (106) miles from Washington, DC.