Academic Achievement
Mountain View School District was ranked 417th out of 498 Pennsylvania school districts in 2012 by the Pittsburgh Business Times. The ranking was based on student academic performance based on the last three years of the PSSAs for: reading, writing, math and science.
- 2011 - 440th
- 2010 - 432nd
- 2009 - 412th
- 2008 - 417th
- 2007 - 423rd out of 501 Pennsylvania school districts.
In 2012, the Pittsburgh Business Times also reported an Overachievers Ranking for 498 Pennsylvania school districts. Mountain View School District ranked 359th. In 2010 the district was 427th. 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 in the Mountain View School District, was in the 13th percentile among all 500 Pennsylvania school districts Scale (0-99; 100 is state best)
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