Summary:
The Mid Valley School District in Pennsylvania has only one elementary school, Mid Valley Elementary Center, which serves students from pre-kindergarten through 6th grade. The school's performance has been declining over the past three years, with its statewide ranking dropping from 980 out of 1,534 Pennsylvania elementary schools in 2021-2022 to 1,080 out of 1,526 in 2023-2024.
Mid Valley Elementary Center's proficiency rates on the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA) tests are significantly below the state averages in Math (28.5% vs. 40.4%) and English Language Arts (42.3% vs. 53%). However, the school's Science proficiency rate (75%) is higher than the state average of 65.8%. The school serves a population with a high level of economic disadvantage, with 100% of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch, and the student-teacher ratio of 16.3 is slightly higher than the state average.
Despite the district's higher-than-average per-student spending of $13,923 for the 2021-2022 school year, the school's academic performance remains below state standards. This suggests that the district may need to evaluate the effectiveness of its resource allocation and investigate instructional practices and strategies to address the low proficiency rates in Math and English Language Arts, while also building upon the school's relative strength in Science.
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