Summary:
The South Allegheny School District in Pennsylvania has only one middle school, South Allegheny Middle School, which serves grades 6-8. The school's performance on standardized tests, such as the PSSA, is generally below the state and district averages, and its statewide ranking has been in the bottom half of Pennsylvania middle schools for the past few years.
South Allegheny Middle School has an enrollment of 313 students, with a high percentage (99.68%) of students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch, indicating a high level of economic disadvantage among the student population. The school's proficiency rates on the PSSA Math and English Language Arts (ELA) assessments were significantly lower than the state and district averages, with only 14.1% proficient in Math and 40.6% proficient in ELA. The school's performance on the PSSA Science assessment was slightly better, but still below the state and district averages.
Despite the school's high per-student spending of $21,143 and a relatively low student-teacher ratio of 13:1, the consistently poor academic performance suggests that the resources may not be effectively utilized or that the school faces other challenges that are not being adequately addressed. The implications of South Allegheny Middle School's performance may extend to the broader South Allegheny School District, which has a ranking of 454 out of 610 in Pennsylvania and a 1-star rating from SchoolDigger, indicating that the district as a whole may be facing challenges in providing quality education to its students.
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