Summary:
The city of Aldan, Pennsylvania has only one public school, Aldan Elementary School, which serves grades K-6 and is part of the William Penn School District. The district is ranked 512 out of 606 school districts in Pennsylvania and has a 1-star rating from SchoolDigger.
Aldan Elementary School's academic performance, as measured by PSSA proficiency rates in math and English language arts (ELA), is consistently lower than the district and state averages across all grade levels. For example, in the 2024-2025 school year, the school's overall math proficiency rate was 22.5%, compared to the district's 16% and the state's 41.7%. Similarly, the school's ELA proficiency rates are also below the district and state averages, with an overall proficiency rate of 29.7% in 2024-2025, compared to the district's 26.7% and the state's 48.5%.
Despite the school's low academic performance, it spends significantly more per student than the state average, with $20,780 spent per student in the 2022-2023 school year. Additionally, the school has a relatively low student-teacher ratio of 13:1 for the 2023-2024 school year, and 100% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, indicating a high level of economic disadvantage among the student population. These factors suggest that the school may be struggling to provide a high-quality education to its students, and further investigation into the underlying causes and potential interventions would be warranted.
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