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See How Local Schools Rank

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Tom Sofield

The Pennsylvania Department of Education released its 2013-2014 School Performance Profile website on Thursday.

repost-us-image-13890730The website – paschoolperformance.org – shows scores from 2,947 schools across the state.

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The public can see the rating of each school building in the district they select. The ratings are on a scale of 0 to 100. Schools that score a 70 or higher are considered satisfactory.

“The profile does not only rely on results of the statewide assessments but it also incorporates other measures of student achievement, including year-to-year student academic growth; graduation, attendance and promotion rates; and increasing the achievement of all students, including historically underperforming students, such as English language learners and economically disadvantaged students,” according to a spokesperson for the Department of Education.

Schools were provided several opportunities to review and verify the data used in calculating the School Performance Profile scores to ensure accuracy.

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Overall, 72 percent of schools in Pennsylvania scored above 70 percent.

“These results show that, compared to 2012-13, the majority of our public schools are performing well even though the state has recently revised its academic standards and is transitioning to more rigorous assessments,” Acting Secretary of Education Carolyn Dumaresq said.  “I am pleased that our students and educators continue to meet the challenge of more rigorous academic programs, and I congratulate them for a job well done.”

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The Performance Profiles, which were first used last year, replace Adequate Yearly Progress goals mandated by the federal No Child Left Behind law.

The scores will factor into 15 percent of teacher evaluations.

Below are a list of Levittown-area school districts and each school’s overall score:

Bristol Borough School District:

Bristol Township School District:

Bucks County Technical High School:

Neshaminy School District:

Pennsbury School District:

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Tom Sofield

Tom Sofield

Tom Sofield has covered news in Bucks County for 16 years for both newspaper and online publications. Tom’s reporting has appeared locally, nationally, and internationally across several mediums. He is proud to report on news in the county where he lives and to have created a reliable publication that the community deserves.