Academic Achievement
The Gettysburg Area School District was ranked 195th out of 498 Pennsylvania school districts, in 2011, by the Pittsburgh Business Times. The ranking was based on student academic performance on five years of PSSAs results in: reading, writing, mathematics and three years of science.
- 2010 - 238th
- 2009 - 292nd
- 2008 - 283rd
- 2007 - 318th of 501 school districts.
In 2009, the academic achievement of the students in the Gettysburg Area School District was in the 65th percentile among Pennsylvania's 500 school districts. Scale - (0-99; 100 is state best)
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