Academic Achievement
Turkeyfoot Valley Area School District was ranked 482nd out of 493 Pennsylvania school districts in 2010 by the Pittsburgh Business Times. The ranking was based on five years of student academic performance on the reading, writing, math and three years of science on the PSSAs.
- 2010 - 477th
- 2009 - 473rd
- 2008 - 464th out of 497 school districts
- 2007 - 453rd out of 501 school districts.
In 2009, the academic achievement of the students of the Turkeyfoot Valley Area School DIstrict was in the 3rd percentile among 500 Pennsylvania School Districts. Scale - (0-99; 100 is state best)
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