Academic Achievement
Selinsgrove Area School District was ranked 140th out of the 498 ranked Pennsylvania School Districts in 2013, by the Pittsburgh Business Times. The ranking was based on student academic achievement as demonstrated in the last 3 years of PSSAs results in: reading, writing, math and science. The PSSAs are given to all children in grades 3rd through 8th and the 11th grade in high school. Adapted examinations are given to children in the special education programs.
- 2012 - 101st
- 2011 - 90th
- 2010 - 110th
- 2009 - 148th
- 2008 - 235th
- 2007 - 235th out of 501 public school districts in the state.
- District AYP history
From 2006 through 2012, Selinsgrove Area School District achieved Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) status. In 2005 the district was in Making Progress in School Improvement status. In 2004, the District had declined to School Improvement status due to ongoing low student achievement at the high school and intermediate school. In 2003, the District was in Warning AYP status. In 2011, 94 percent of the 500 Pennsylvania public school districts achieved the No Child Left Behind Act progress level of 72% of students reading on grade level and 67% of students demonstrating on grade level math. In 2011, 46.9 percent of Pennsylvania school districts achieved Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) based on student performance. An additional 37.8 percent of school districts made AYP based on a calculated method called safe harbor, 8.2 percent on the growth model and 0.8 percent on a two-year average performance. School District achieved AYP status each year from 2004 to 2009, while in 2003 the District was in Warning status due to lagging student achievement. "The Daily Item" reported in 2007, Selinsgrove Area School District reached adequate yearly progress standards for the first time since the progress analysis began during the 2002-03 school year.
In December 2007, the school board adopted a new six-year Strategic Plan that strives for the academic success of each student. Alignment of curriculum to the Pennsylvania Academic Standards is incomplete for several core subjects. This negatively impacts student outcomes as measured by the PSSAs.
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