The Statewide Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA) have been published by the Department of Education, and Wissahickon School District scores for 2016-17 are high. Wissahickon earned a 100.7 in their performance profile, their third consecutive year of scoring above 100.
According to the Department of Education, the score for a school is based upon indicators that define a high performing school. Many data elements come together to create the academic score: academic achievement, closing the achievement gap (progress of all students towards proficiency) and historically underperforming students’ scores (which are used to determine if a school is making progress towards proficiency) represent 50 percent of the academic performance score. 40 percent of the academic performance score includes Academic Growth/PVAAS, which measures the school’s impact on the academic progress of groups of students from year-to-year. And, other academic indicators like graduation rate, promotion rate and attendance rate, make up the last 10 percent of the total score.
Schools may earn up to 7 additional points via Extra Credit for Advanced Achievement based upon advanced performance on state and industry assessments, as well as for students earning a 3 or higher on an Advanced Placement exam or 4 or higher on an International Baccalaureate exam.
Some of the scores and categories we highlighted are as follows:
- Overall Performance Score: 100.7
- graduation rate 99.13
- Sat/ACt college readiness benchmark-100.0
Closing the Achievement Gap scores were also high, and shows how well Wissahickon is doing to improve the scores of historically underperforming students:
- Mathematics 83.54
- ELA/Literature 99.23
- Science/Biology 100.00
For a more complete view of all of Wissahickon’s scores and results, as well as other area schools, visit the Pennsylvania Department of Education/PSSA website. A sample of how Wissahickon High School scored compared to local high schools can be seen below:
- Wissahickon High School 100.7
- Upper Dublin High School 91.7
- Plymouth Whitemarsh High School 96.6
- Hatboro Horsham 67.8
- Abington High School 90.4
- Cheltenham High School 70.9
- Springfield High School 86.2