Academic Achievement
The Southern Huntingdon County School District was ranked 442nd out of 498 Pennsylvania school districts, in 2010, by the Pittsburgh Business Times. The ranking was based on student academic performance on four years of PSSA results in: reading, writing, mathematics and two years of science.
- 2009 - 1st
- 2008 - 2nd
- 2007 - 459th of 501 school districts by the Pittsburgh Business Times.
In 2009, the academic achievement, of the students in the Southern Huntingdon County School District, was in the 14th percentile among all 500 Pennsylvania school districts Scale (0-99; 100 is state best)
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