Academic Achievement
Albert Gallatin Area School District was ranked 464th out of 495 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 PSSAs for math, reading, writing and science.
- 2011 - 454th
- 2010 - 466th
- 2009 - 443rd out of 497 Pennsylvania school districts
- 2008 - 449th
- 2007 - 425th out of 501 districts.
In 2009, the academic achievement of the Albert Gallatin Area School District students was in the 12th percentile of Pennsylvania's 500 school districts. Scale - (0-99; 100 is state best).
Albert Gallatin Area School District was ranked 92nd out of 105 western Pennsylvania school districts, in 2010, by the Pittsburgh Business Times. The ranking was based on four years of student academic performance on the PSSAs for math, reading, writing and two years of science. This covers public schools, including charter schools in: Fayette County, Westmoreland County, Allegheny County, Washington County, Beaver County, Armstrong County and Butler County.
- 2009 - 93rd
- 2008 - 93rd in western Pennsylvania school districts.
- District AYP status history
In 2012, Albert Gallatin Area School District declined to Warning AYP status due to low student academic achievement. In 2011, Al;bert Gallatin Area School District achieved Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP). 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. From 2006 to 2010, Alberta Gallatin Area School District, as a whole, achieved AYP status each year. In 2005- Warning; 2004 - AYP and 2003 Warning status.
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