Academic Achievement
Blue Mountain School District was ranked 137th out of 498 Pennsylvania school districts in 2010 by the Pittsburgh Business Times. The ranking was based on three years of student academic achievement on the PSSA results on: reading, writing, math and two years of science.
2009 - 140th
2008 - 104th
2007 - 90th of 500 school districts in Pennsylvania.
In 2010, the Pittsburgh Business Times reported an Overachievers Ranking for 498 Pennsylvania school districts. Blue Mountain ranked 364th. In 2009 the district was 369th. The paper describes the ranking as: "a ranking answers the question - which school districts do better than expectations based upon economics? This rank takes the Honor Roll rank and adds the percentage of students in the district eligible for free and reduced lunch into the formula. A district finishing high on this rank is smashing expectations, and any district above the median point is exceeding expectations."
In 2009, the academic achievement, of the students in the Blue Mountain School District, was in the 67th percentile among all 500 Pennsylvania school districts Scale (0-99; 100 is state best)
Graduation Rate
2010 - 95%
2009 - 93%
2008 - 95%
2007 - 95%
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