Academic Achievement
In 2012, Southern Columbia Area School District was ranked 142nd out of 498 Pennsylvania school districts, by the Pittsburgh Business Times. The ranking was based on student academic performance, for the past three years, on the PSSAs for: reading, writing, math and science.
- 2011 - 118th
- 2010 - 146th
- 2009 - 160th
- 2008 - 176th
- 2007 - 135th out of 501 Pennsylvania school districts.
- Overachiever statewide ranking
In 2012, the Pittsburgh Business Times also reported an Overachievers Ranking for 498 Pennsylvania school districts. Southern Columbia School District ranked 306th. In 2011, the district was 270th. 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 Southern Columbia Area School District, was in the 67th percentile among all 500 Pennsylvania school districts Scale (0-99; 100 is state best)
- District AYP status history
In 2012, Southern Columbia Area School District achieved AYP status In 2011, Southern Columbia Area School District achieved Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP). 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. Southern Columbia Area School District achieved AYP status each year from 2004 to 2009, while in 2003 the SCASD was in Warning status due to lagging student achievement.
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