Academic Achievement
Clearfield Area School District was ranked 401st out of 498 Pennsylvania school districts in 2011 by the Pittsburgh Business Times. The ranking was based on five years of student academic performance on the PSSAs for math, reading, writing and three years of science.
- 2010 - 398th
- 2009 - 427th
- 2008 - 436th
- 2007 - 429th of Pennsylvania's 501 school districts.
In 2011, the Pittsburgh Business Times reported an Overachievers Ranking for 498 Pennsylvania school districts. Clearfield Area School District ranked 158th. In 2010, the district was ranked 78th. The editor 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 the Clearfield Area School District was in the 16th percentile of Pennsylvania's 500 school districts. Scale (0-99; 100 is state best)
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