Dallastown Area School District - Academic Achievement

Academic Achievement

Dallastown Area School District was ranked 84th out of 498 Pennsylvania school districts in 2012 by the Pittsburgh Business Times. The ranking was based on the last three years of student academic achievement on the PSSA results on: reading, writing, math and science.

• 2011 - 96th
• 2010 – 81st
• 2009 – 93rd
• 2008 – 93rd
• 2007 – 105th of 500 school districts in Pennsylvania.

In 2010, the Pittsburgh Business Times reported an Overachievers Ranking for 498 Pennsylvania school districts. Dallastown Area ranked 271st. 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."

• 2011 - 271st
• 2010 - 236th
• 2099 - 318th

In 2010 and 2011, Dallastown Area School District achieved AYP status under No Child Left Behind. 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.

In 2009, the academic achievement of the students of Dallastown Area School District was in the 80th percentile among 500 Pennsylvania School Districts. Scale - (0-99; 100 is state best)