Academic Achievement
Elk Lake School District was ranked 295th out of 498 Pennsylvania school districts in 2012 by the Pittsburgh Business Times. The ranking was based on student academic performance based on the last three years' PSSAs for: reading, writing, math and science.
- 2011 - 295th
- 2010 - 274th
- 2009 - 303rd
- 2008 - 318th
- 2007 - 355th out of 501 Pennsylvania school districts.
In 2009, the academic achievement, of the students in the Elk Lake School District, was in the 53rd percentile among all 500 Pennsylvania school districts Scale (0-99; 100 is state best)
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