Academics
The Lakeland School District was ranked 165th out of 498 Pennsylvania school districts, in 2011, by the Pittsburgh Business Times. The ranking was based on student academic performance on five years of PSSA results in: reading, writing, mathematics and three years of science.
- 2010 - 173rd
- 2009 - 261st
- 2008 - 141st
- 2007 - 150th of 501 school districts by the Pittsburgh Business Times.
In 2009, the academic achievement, of the students in the Lakeland School District, was in the 47th percentile among all 500 Pennsylvania school districts Scale (0-99; 100 is state best)
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