Academic Achievements
Armstrong School District was ranked 72nd out of 105 western Pennsylvania school districts in 2010 and 2009 by the Pittsburgh Business Times. The ranking was based on three years of student academic performance on the PSSAs for math, reading, writing and science. In 2008, the school district ranked 67th of 105 districts in the region.
In 2010, Armstrong School District was ranked 352nd out of the 498 ranked Pennsylvania School Districts by the Pittsburgh Business Times. The ranking was based on student academic achievement as demonstrated in 5 years of PSSA results in: reading, writing, mathematics and three years of science.
- 2010 – 328th
- 2009 – 319th
- 2008 – 283rd
- 2007 – 283rd of 501 school districts
In 2007 Johns Hopkins University reported that several of the district's high schools were listed among 47 Pennsylvania schools and 1700 nationwide high schools with high drop out rates.
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