Academic Achievement
In 2011, the school district ranked 330th of 498 Pennsylvania school district. The ranking was based on five years of student academic performance on the PSSAs for math, reading, writing and three years of science.
- 2010 – 320th
- 2009 – 381st
- 2008 – 378th
- 2007 – 384th out of 501 school district for student academic achievement.
The McGuffey School District ranked 80th out of 105 western Pennsylvania school districts, by the Pittsburgh Business Times in 2009. In 2008, the district was ranked 78th.
In 2009, the academic achievement of the students in McGuffey School District was in the 42nd percentile of Pennsylvania Public School Districts.
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