Schools
District Named Among Top 10 in Pennsylvania
Another honor for Peters Township schools, reported by the Pittsburgh Business Times.
Peters Township schools have been named among the top 10 school districts in Pennsylvania, according to the annual analysis of the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment Exam results by the Pittsburgh Business Times.
The results were announced last Friday by the weekly business newspaper in its annual "Guide to Western Pennsylvania Schools."
The Pittsburgh Business Times annually ranks all 500 school districts across the state, and offers profiles of area school districts to show how they compared to others.
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The formula for ranking takes into account three years of PSSA test scores in math, reading, writing and science.
Peters Township schools ranked fifth overall in the seven-county region of western Pennsylvania, and ranked 10th overall compared to schools statewide.
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Peters Township is also the highest-ranking school district in Washington County, according to the published report. The move to the top 10 spot in Pennsylvania was an improvement from a 13th overall ranking last year.
At the grade-level rankings, Peters Township also scored among the top five in the region in the 7th, 8th and 11th grades.
Compared to other school districts in the region, Peters was fifth behind Upper St. Clair, North Allegheny, Mt. Lebanon and Hampton.
The top 10 ranking statewide by the Pittsburgh Business Times comes less than a month after the Pennsylvania State Department of Education ranked Peters Township among the leaders statewide with percentage of graduations. In that report, the Peters Township School District led all schools in the region. Refer back to our story .
The entire Pittsburgh Business Times report is available here.
