Academic Achievement
The West Shore School District was ranked 266th out of 498 Pennsylvania school districts, in 2012, by the Pittsburgh Business Times. The ranking was based on the last three years of student academic performance on the PSSA for: reading, writing, mathematics and science.
- 2011 - 252nd
- 2010 – 269th
- 2009 – 291st
- 2008 – 279th
- 2007 – 242nd of 501 school districts by the Pittsburgh Business Times.
In 2009, the academic achievement of the students in the West Shore School District was in the lower 38th percentile among Pennsylvania's 500 school districts. Scale (0–99; 100 is state best)
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