Academic Achievement
Forest Area School District was ranked 433rd out of the 498 ranked Pennsylvania school districts in 2011 by the Pittsburgh Business Times. The ranking was based on student academic achievement as demonstrated by 5 years of PSSA results in: reading, writing, mathematics, and three years of science.
- 2010 - 379th
- 2009 - 406th
- 2008 - 403rd
- 2007 - 387th out of 501 Pennsylvania school districts in 2007.
In 2009, the district ranked in the 18th percentile for student academic achievement among Pennsylvania's 500 school districts.
- Graduation Rate
- 2010 - 97%
- 2009 - 98%
- 2008 - 98%
- 2007 - 98%
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