Academic Achievement
Big Beaver Falls Area School District was ranked 316th out of 498 Pennsylvania school districts by the Pittsburgh Business Times in 2012. The ranking was based on student academic achievement as demonstrated on five years of the PSSAs for: reading, writing math and three years of science.
- 2011 - 336th
- 2010 - 321st
- 2009 - 315th
- 2008 - 348th
- 2007 - 364 out of 500 school districts.
In 2012, the Pittsburgh Business Times also reported an Overachievers Ranking for 498 Pennsylvania school districts. Big Beaver Falls Area School District ranked first in the Commonwealth. In 2011, the district also was first. The editor describes the ranking as: "a ranking answers the question - which school districts do better than expectations based upon economics? This rank takes the Honor Roll rank and adds the percentage of students in the district eligible for free and reduced lunch into the formula. A district finishing high on this rank is smashing expectations, and any district above the median point is exceeding expectations."
Big Beaver Falls Area School District was ranked 70th out of 105 western Pennsylvania school districts in 2012. The Pittsburgh Business Times ranking was based on the last three years of student academic performance on the PSSAs on: math, reading, writing and science.
- 2011 - 70th
- 2010 - 69th
- 2009 - 70th
- 2008 - 75th
In 2009, the academic achievement of the students of Big Beaver Falls Area School DIstrict was in the 47 percentile among 500 Pennsylvania School Districts. Scale - (0-99; 100 is state best)
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