Academic Achievement
The Everett Area School District was ranked 406th out of 498 Pennsylvania school districts, in 2010, by the Pittsburgh Business Times. The ranking was based on student academic performance on four years of PSSA results in: reading, writing, mathematics and two years of science.
- 2009 - 417th
- 2008 - 439th
- 2007 - 467th of 501 school districts by the Pittsburgh Business Times.
In 2009, the academic achievement, of the students in the Everett Area School District, was in the 40th percentile among all 500 Pennsylvania school districts Scale (0-99; 100 is state best)
A 2010 study by The 21st Century Partnership for STEM Education found that students in the Everett Area School District were among the most improved from 2004-2010. The district's Advanced reading score rose 21.9 points on the PSSAs. Over the same time period, the percentage of the district's students achieving advanced level in math rose 28.8 points.
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