Academic Achievement
Brownsville Area School District was ranked 467th out of 498 Pennsylvania school districts in 2011, by the Pittsburgh Business Times. The ranking was based on four years of student academic performance on the reading, writing, math and two years of science PSSAs.
- 2010 - 472nd
- 2009 - 470th
- 2008 - 479th
- 2007 - 473rd out of 501 school districts.
In 2011, the Pittsburgh Business Times reported an Overachievers Ranking for 498 Pennsylvania school districts. Brownsville Area ranked 345th. In 2010 the district was 177th. 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 of Brownsville Area School DIstrict was in the lowest 4 percentile among 500 Pennsylvania School Districts. Scale - (0-99; 100 is state best)
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