 Mergers slowed through the 1980s after a 1981 court order desegregated and combined the Edgewood, General Braddock, Swissvale, Churchill and Turtle Creek districts into the Woodland Hills district.From 2000 through 2010, rural Pennsylvania public school district enrollment has decreased by 8 percent.In 2010, there were 726,417 children in rural Pennsylvania, or 21 percent of the total rural population.