Local Academic Ranking
In 2012, Montour High School was ranked 28th out of 122 western Pennsylvania high schools, by the Pittsburgh Business Times, for academic achievement based on the last three years of the PSSAs on: reading, writing, mathematics and science.
- 2011 - 22nd
- 2010 - 25th
- 2009 - 34th
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