Portage Area Junior/Senior High School

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Public | Grades: 7-12 | 391 students
District: Portage Area School District

     85 Mountain Ave
     Portage, PA  15946-1800

     (814) 736-9636

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PSSA			Students tested			% met standard
Test	Year	Grade	School	District	State	School	District	State
Math	2008	7th Grade	n/a	n/a	n/a	67.1	67.1	70.6
Math	2009	7th Grade	65	65	132,803	66.2	66.2	75.3
Math	2010	7th Grade	63	63	127,685	71.4	71.4	77.9
Math	2011	7th Grade	57	57	126,993	93	93	78.6
Math	2012	7th Grade	50	51	127,152	92	92.1	80.1

Source:  Pennsylvania Dept of Education

The Pennsylvania System of School Assessment, also known as PSSA, measures how well students have achieved in reading, mathematics, science and writing according to Pennsylvania’s world-class academic standards. By using these standards, educators, parents and administrators can evaluate their students’ strengths and weaknesses to increase students’ achievement scores. According to the federal No Child Left Behind Act, students must be 100% proficient in reading and math by 2014.

The PSSA results allow schools and districts to evaluate their students’ progress to make full proficiency a reality. Today’s eighth graders will be 11th graders by the year 2014 when full proficiency must be reached.

The federal No Child Left Behind Act requires states to determine annually whether schools and districts in Pennsylvania make Adequate Yearly Progress, also known as AYP. The 2009-10 targets were 56% proficient or advanced in math and 63% proficient or advanced in reading.

Source: Pennsylvania Department of Education