Academic Achievement
The Camp Hill School District was ranked 42nd 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 PSSAs in: reading, writing, mathematics and science.
- 2011 - 29th
- 2010 - 34th
- 2009 - 35th
- 2008 - 34th
- 2007 - 22nd of 501 school districts by the Pittsburgh Business Times.
In 2009 the academic achievement of the pupils in the district was in the 85th percentile among Pennsylvanian's 500 school districts. Scale (0-99; 100 is state best)
In 2012, the Pittsburgh Business Times reported an Overachievers Ranking for 498 Pennsylvania school districts. Camp Hill School District ranked 366th. 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."
- 2011 - 368th
- 2010 - 415th
- 2009 - 407th
- District AYP status history
In 2012 and 2011, Camp Hill 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. School District achieved AYP status each year from 2003 to 2009.
US News and World Report ranked 21,000 public high schools, in the United States, based on three factors. First, the schools were analyzed for the number of students who achieved above the state average on the reading and math tests. Then they considered how the economically disadvantaged students performed against the state average. Finally, they considered the participation rate and the performance of students in college readiness by examining Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate test data. Camp Hill High School was ranked Silver. Seventy Pennsylvania high schools achieved ranking bronze, silver or gold rating. Fifteen Pennsylvania high schools achieved silver. The High school was also listed as silver in 2010.
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