Academic Achievement
In 2007, the state conducted a study to determine a cost per pupil, for education K-12. In the study, Wyoming Area School District was as one of 80 high performing school districts. Additionally, the district was recognized as a low spending - high achievement school district. The author went on to suggest that the district should be spending another $3000 per pupil to achieve AYP.
Wyoming Area School District was ranked 66th out of 498 Pennsylvania school districts in 2011, by the Pittsburgh Business Times. The ranking was based on student academic performance based on the PSSAs for: reading, writing, math and three years of science.
- 2010 - 66th
- 2009 - 49th
- 2008 - 44th
- 2007 - 32nd out of 501 Pennsylvania school districts.
In 2009, the academic achievement of the pupils in the district was in the 83rd percentile among Pennsylvanian's 500 school districts. Scale (0-99; 100 is state best)
- In 2005, Standard and Poors Educational Services ranked Wyoming Area as one of the top 47 school districts of the 501 in Pennsylvania.
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