Academic Achievement
The Littlestown Area School District was ranked 331st 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 - 309th
- 2009 - 306th
- 2008 - 325th
- 2007 - 280th of 501 school districts by the Pittsburgh Business Times.
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