Academic Achievement
The Big Spring School District was ranked 372nd out of 498 Pennsylvania school districts, in 2012, by the Pittsburgh Business Times. The ranking was based on student academic achievement on the last 3 years of PSSA results in: reading, writing, mathematics and science.
- 2001 - 382nd
- 2010 - 382nd
- 2009 - 391st
- 2008 - 380th
- 2007 - 388th of 501 school districts.
In 2012, the Pittsburgh Business Times reported an Overachievers Ranking for 498 Pennsylvania school districts. Big Spring School District ranked 477th. In 2011, the district was 489th. The paper 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."
- 2010 - 490th
- 2009 - 488th
- District AYP status history
In 2012, Big Spring School District achieved AYP status In 2011, the School District achieved Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP). In 2011, 94 percent of the 500 Pennsylvania public school districts achieved the No Child Left Behind Act progress level of 72% of students reading on grade level and 67% of students demonstrating on grade level math. In 2011, 46.9 percent of Pennsylvania school districts achieved Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) based on student performance. An additional 37.8 percent of school districts made AYP based on a calculated method called safe harbor, 8.2 percent on the growth model and 0.8 percent on a two-year average performance. Big Spring School District achieved AYP status each year from 2006 to 2009, In 2004, the District declined to School Improvement status due to low achievement. In 2005 the district improved to Making Progress status. In 2003 (the first year AYP was reported), the District was in Warning status due to lagging student achievement.
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