[3] Unlike many school districts in Pennsylvania, Wallenpaupack Area is not subdivided into regions.

However, it does contain the following municipalities (labeled by county): In early 2018, Hyung Jin Moon, co-founder of the World Peace and Unification Sanctuary Church and Southern Poverty Law Center-labeled "Anti-LGBT cult leader", announced an upcoming church event with guns.

[4][5] The event, a marriage vows renewal ceremony that asked participants to bring their AR-15 rifles, was to be held on February 28 in Newfoundland, Pennsylvania.

[6] Neighbors of the church came out to protest the insensitivity of having the AR-15 rifles at the event so soon after the Parkland, Florida shooting that killed 17 people.

[7][8] Due to the increased gun threat caused by Moon's ceremony, the students of Wallenpaupack Area South Elementary were relocated on February 28.