Academic Achievement
Forest City Regional School District was ranked 232nd out of 498 Pennsylvania school districts in 2011 by the Pittsburgh Business Times. The ranking was based on the last three years of student academic performance on the PSSAs for: reading, writing, math and science.
- 2011 - 337th
- 2010 - 392nd
- 2009 - 384th
- 2008 - 374th
- 2007 - 379th out of 501 Pennsylvania school districts.
In 2012, the Pittsburgh Business Times also reported an Overachievers Ranking for 498 Pennsylvania school districts. Forest City Regional School District ranked 18th. 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."
- 2011 - 88th
- 2010 - 193rd
- 2009 - 208th
In 2009, the academic achievement, of the students in the Forest City Regional School District, was in the 24th percentile among all 500 Pennsylvania school districts Scale (0-99; 100 is state best)
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