Center for Student Learning Charter School at Pennsbury

The Center for Student Learning Charter School at Pennsbury is the sole public charter high school serving grades 6-12 in the Center for Student Learning Charter School at Pennsbury district, located in Levittown, Pennsylvania. With a total enrollment of 167 students, the school faces significant challenges, including consistently low academic performance, a high dropout rate, and a student population with a high percentage of economic disadvantage.

The school's proficiency rates on PSSA and Keystone exams are consistently lower than the state averages across all subject areas and grade levels, with only around 30% of students proficient or better in English Language Arts and single-digit proficiency rates in Math and other subjects. In the 2024-2025 school year, for example, only 2.1% of students were proficient or better in PSSA Math, compared to the state average of 41.7%. Additionally, the school's dropout rate for the 2023-2024 school year was 1.4%, which is higher than the state average.

The high percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch (90.42% in 2023-2024) suggests that the school serves a population with significant economic challenges, which may contribute to the low academic performance. Despite the school's relatively low student-teacher ratio of 8.3 to 1 and high per-student spending of $19,460, the school's statewide ranking has been declining, from 577 out of 674 Pennsylvania high schools in 2022-2023 to 603 out of 681 in 2024-2025, indicating that the school is not keeping pace with other high schools in the state.