Academic Achievement
Halifax Area School District was ranked 303rd out of 498 Pennsylvania School Districts, in 2012, by the Pittsburgh Business Times. The ranking was based on student academic achievement on the last three years of PSSAs on: math, reading, writing and science results. The PSSAs are given to all public school children in grades 3rd through 8th and the 11th grade. Adapted examinations are given to children in the special education programs.
- 2011 - 311th
- 2010 - 285th
- 2009 - 285th
- 2008 - 294th
- 2007 - 299th of Pennsylvania's 501 school districts.
In 2012, the Pittsburgh Business Times reported an Overachievers Ranking for 498 Pennsylvania school districts. Halifax Area ranked 481st. 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 - 459th
- 2010 - 474th
- 2009 - 408th
In 2009, the student academic achievement of the Halifax Area School District fell in the 40th percentile among PA's 500 school districts.
- District AYP status history
In 2012, Halifax Area School District declined to Warning AYP status. In 2011, Halifax Area 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. Halifax Area School District achieved AYP status each year from 2003 to 2010.
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