Academic Achievement
The school district ranked 384th out of 498 Pennsylvania school districts, by the Pittsburgh Business Times in 2012, for academic achievement as reflected by the last three years of student results on: math, reading, writing and science PSSAs.
- 2011 - 395th
- 2010 - 339th
- 2009 - 309th
- 2008 - 355th
- 2007 - 349th out of 500 school districts in 2007.
In 2009, the academic achievement of the students in the Middletown Area School District was in the 39th percentile among Pennsylvania's 500 school districts. Scale (0-99; 100 is state best)
In 2012, Middletown Area School District declined to Warning status due to missing several academic metrics measured in Reading and Mathematics.
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