Academic Achievement
In its 2010 School Improvement Grants application to the federal government, the Pennsylvania Department of Education identified the following Allentown District Schools as Persistently Low Achieving Schools: Central Elementary School; Francis D Raub Middle School; Harrison-Morton Middle School; Jefferson Elementary School; Louis Dieruff High School; Sheridan Elementary School; Trexler Middle School; Union Terrace Elementary School; and William Allen High School. Central Elementary School was cited by the Pennsylvania Department of Education as one of the lowest 5% persistently lowest achieving schools in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
The Allentown School District was ranked 483rd out of 498 Pennsylvania school districts, in 2011, by the Pittsburgh Business Times. The ranking was based on student academic achievement on five years of PSSA results in: reading, writing, mathematics and three years of science.
- 2010 – 482nd
- 2009 – 481st
- 2008 – 480th
- 2007 – 485th
In 2010, the district was in Corrective Action II 3rd Year level in AYP status due to chronically low student achievement.
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