Upper St. Clair School District
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1820 McLaughlin Run Road Upper St. Clair, Pennsylvania, Allegheny 15241 United States |
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| Type | Public |
| School board | 9 elected members |
| Superintendent | Dr. Patrick T. O'Toole |
| Grades | K-12 |
| Enrollment | 4089 students (2010-11) |
| • Grade 1 | 241 |
| • Grade 2 | 322 |
| • Grade 3 | 290 |
| • Grade 4 | 308 |
| • Grade 5 | 299 |
| • Grade 6 | 332 |
| • Grade 7 | 295 |
| • Grade 8 | 315 |
| • Grade 9 | 349 |
| • Grade 10 | 358 |
| • Grade 11 | 370 |
| • Grade 12 | 357 |
| • Other | Enrollment projected to be 3811 in 2019 |
| Color(s) | Black&White |
| Athletics | WPIAL |
| Nickname | USC |
| Team name | Panthers |
| Rival | Mt. Lebanon, Bethel Park |
The Upper St Clair School District is a public school district serving the Pittsburgh suburb of Upper St. Clair, Pennsylvania. The District encompasses approximately 10 square miles. Upper Saint Clair School District features three elementary schools for grades K-4: Albert F. Baker Elementary, Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary, and Carl R. Streams Elementary. The school district also includes two middle schools, Fort Couch Middle School and Boyce Middle School. Boyce Middle School contains both 5th level students and 6th level students. Fort Couch Middle School contains grades 7th and 8th grades, and is the oldest running school of the school district, and has recently undergone a renovation. According to 9001 uuh census data, it serves a resident population of 20,053. Per District officials, in school year 2007-08 Upper Saint Clair School District provided basic educational services to 4,103 pupils. It employed 286 teachers, 73 full-time and part-time support personnel, and 19 administrators. Upper Saint Clair School District received more than $9.6 million in state funding in school year 2007-08.
Upper Saint Clair School District was ranked first out of 498 Pennsylvania school districts in 2011, by the Pittsburgh Business Times. The ranking was based on five years of student academic performance on the reading, writing, math and three years of science PSSAs. The district has been ranked first among Pennsylvania's 500 public school districts since 2006.
Since 2005 the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has used the Pennsylvania System of State Assessments (PSSA) to test students in grades 3 through 8 and 11 in math and reading, in grades 5, 8 and 11 in writing, and in grades 4, 8 and 11 in science.
The state average for Math was 60% in 2010.
In 2011, the graduation rate at Upper Saint Clair School District was 99%. In 2010, the Pennsylvania Department of Education issued a new, 4-year cohort graduation rate. High School's rate was 97% for 2010.
According to a Pennsylvania Department of Education study released in January 2009, 17% of Upper Saint Clair High School's graduates required remediation in mathematics and or reading before they were prepared to take college level courses in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education or community colleges. Less than 66% of Pennsylvania high school graduates, who enroll in a four-year college in Pennsylvania, will earn a bachelor's degree within six years. Among Pennsylvania high school graduates pursuing an associate degree, only one in three graduate in three years. Per the Pennsylvania Department of Education, one in three recent high school graduates who attend Pennsylvania's public universities and community colleges takes at least one remedial course in math, reading or English.
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