Academic Achievement
In July 2012, the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) released a report identifying Duquesne City School District school as among the lowest achieving schools for reading and mathematics in 2011. Duquesne City School is among the 15% lowest achieving schools in the Commonwealth. Parents and students may be eligible for scholarships to transfer to another public or nonpublic school through the state's Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit Program passed in June 2012. The scholarships are limited to those students whose family's income is less than $60,000 annually, with another $12,000 allowed per dependent. Maximum scholarship award is $8,500, with special education students receiving up to $15,000 for a year's tuition. Parents pay any difference between the scholarship amount and the receiving school's tuition rate. Students may seek admission to neighboring public school districts. Each year the PDE publishes the tuition rate for each individual public school district. Fifty three public schools in Allegheny County are among the lowest achieving schools in 2011. According to the report, parents in 414 public schools (74 school districts) were offered access to these scholarships. For the 2012-13 school year, eight public school districts in Pennsylvania had all their schools placed on the list including: Sto-Rox School District, Chester Upland School District, Clairton City School District, Duquesne City School District, Farrell Area School District, Wilkinsburg Borough School District, William Penn School District and Steelton-Highspire School District. Funding for the scholarships comes from donations by businesses which receive a partial state business tax credit for donating.
- Western Region ranking
Duquesne City School District was ranked 105th out of 105 Western Pennsylvania School Districts in 2009 by the Pittsburgh Business Times. The ranking was based on the last three years of student academic performance on the PSSAs for: math, reading, writing and science. The PSSAs are given to all children in grades 3rd through 8th and the 11th grade in high school. Adapted examinations are given to children in the special education programs. The district was no longer included in the ranking when the high school closed.
- 2008 - 105th of the Western Pennsylvania school districts and 496th out of 498 Pennsylvania school districts.
- Attendance Rate:
- 2011 - 90.76%
- 2010 - 89%
- 2009 - 90%
- 2008 - 87%
The high school ranked 116th of 123 high school in western Pennsylvania for academic achievement based on three years of PSSA results on: math, reading, writing and one year of science, by Pittsburgh Business Times in May 2009. The school was closed by the Pennsylvania Department of Education.
- District Adequate Yearly Progress history
In 2011, Duquesne City School District declined to Corrective Action I AYP status due to achieving 0 out of 8 metrics. In 2010, the school district is in School Improvements II. The scores fell from the 2008-09 to 2009-10.
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