Academic Achievement
The district was ranked 359th out of 498 Pennsylvania school districts, in 2011, by the Pittsburgh Business Times. The ranking was based on five years of student academic performance on the PSSAs for: math, reading, writing and 3 years of science.
- 2010 – 306th
- 2009 – 287th
- 2008 – 263rd out of 498 ranked Pennsylvania school districts.
- 2007 – 287th out of 501 Pennsylvania School Districts.
The school district was ranked 66th out of 105 western Pennsylvania school districts in 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 1 year of science. In 2008, the school district ranked 64th out of 105 Western Pennsylvania districts.
In 2009, the academic achievement, of the students in the Bentworth School District, was in the 20th percentile among all 500 Pennsylvania school districts Scale (0–99; 100 is state best)
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