Summary:
Girard has three public schools serving students from prekindergarten through grade 12: R V Haderlein Elementary, Girard Middle, and Girard High. Their results show several strong subject- and grade-level pockets, alongside weaker areas. The central takeaway for families is that outcomes differ sharply from school to school, rather than showing one consistently strong or weak picture across Girard.
Girard High leads in all-grades ELA, at 57%, while Girard Middle is lowest at 38%; the 20-point gap is the largest ELA difference between schools. Haderlein leads all-grades math at 49% and science at 71%, while Middle is lowest in math at 38% and High is lowest in science at 35%. Haderlein’s fifth-grade math is 24 points above the state result, and its fifth-grade science is 25 points above. High’s 10th-grade ELA is 16 points above the state, while Middle’s grade 6 and grade 8 ELA results are 7 and 9 points below their state comparisons. These all-grades figures cover different grade spans, so grade-specific comparisons give a clearer picture of results for a particular child.
Recent score changes are mixed: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, High gained 4 points in ELA and 3 in math; Middle fell 1 point in ELA and was nearly flat in math; Haderlein was nearly flat in ELA and gained 2 points in math and 3 in science. The average school advantage over the state narrowed by about 1 point in both ELA and math. SchoolDigger ranks High at the 81st percentile with 4 stars, Haderlein at the 63rd with 3 stars, and Middle at the 45th with 2 stars; compared with 2023–24, all three rankings are lower, especially Middle, which fell from the 65th to the 45th percentile. Attendance is a positive area of context: chronic absenteeism is 5% at High and about 12% at each of the other schools, compared with 18% statewide.
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