Cocalico School District

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Map of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Public School Districts. Cocalico School District is in light blue at the very top (north-most) corner of the map.

2006 SAT: average scores Lancaster County schools
School District	Reading	Math	Writing	Total
Cocalico	473	489	467	1429
Columbia Borough	445	435	419	1299
Conestoga Valley	505	513	501	1519
Donegal	511	531	490	1532
Eastern Lancaster County	506	521	494	1521
Elizabethtown Area	501	520	490	1511
Ephrata Area	488	498	472	1458
Hempfield	522	565	505	1592
Lampeter-Strasburg	522	527	501	1550
Lancaster	449	448	448	1316
Manheim Central	503	520	491	1517
Manheim Township	547	565	535	1647
Penn Manor	492	513	474	1479
Pequea Valley	505	508	481	1494
Solanco	506	516	482	1504
Warwick	527	527	509	1563
County average	500	512	484	1496
Pennsylvania average	493	500	483	1476
U.S. average	503	518	497	1518
Possible on each test: 800 points _{Source: "Blame it on fried brains",} ^{September 21, 2006 Lancaster New Era}

The Cocalico School District is a school district of 3531 students educated in 6 schools by 209 teachers in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in the United States. It is a member of Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit (IU) 13. Geographically, the school district includes the boroughs of Denver and Adamstown, as well as East Cocalico and West Cocalico townships. The census-designated place of Reamstown is located within East Cocalico Township.

There are 6 native students, 88 asian students, 42 black students, and 3315 white students, with 80 students of all races considering themselves hispanic or latino.^[1]

1 Scholastic Performance
2 Comparison to other Lancaster County school districts
3 See also
4 References

[edit] Scholastic Performance

Attendance at Adamstown Elementary School in Adamstown, Pennsylvania during the 2005-2006 school year was 96.12%, essentially the same as the 96.15% scored in the prior year. Students were 85.0% proficient in math, 67.4% proficient in reading.^[2]

Attendance at Denver Elementary School in Denver, Pennsylvania during the 2005-2006 school year was 96.36%, essentially the same as the 96.27% scored in the prior year. Students were 87.1% proficient in math, 70.9% proficient in reading.^[3]

Attendance at Reamstown Elementary School in Reamstown, Pennsylvania during the 2005-2006 school year was 96.26%, essentially the same as the 95.97% scored in the prior year. Students were 81.0% proficient in math, 63.9% proficient in reading.^[4]

Attendance at Schoeneck Elementary School in Stevens, Pennsylvania during the 2005-2006 school year was 96.95%, essentially the same as the 97.12% scored in the prior year. Students were 94.6% proficient in math, 91.9% proficient in reading.^[5]

Attendance at Cocalico Middle School in Denver, Pennsylvania during the 2005-2006 school year was 95.37%, essentially the same as the 95.50% scored in the prior year. Students were 80.4% proficient in math, 83.5% proficient in reading.^[6]

Attendance at Cocalico Senior High School in Denver, Pennsylvania during the 2005-2006 school year was 90.41%, somewhat lower than the 94.87% scored in the prior year. Students were 52.7% proficient in math, 64.5% proficient in reading.^[7]

[edit] Comparison to other Lancaster County school districts

Pennsylvania System of School Assessment 2005-2006 PSSA proficiency levels for Lancaster County schools
School District	3-5 Reading	3-5 Math	6-8 Reading	6-8 Math	9-12 Reading	9-12 Math
Cocalico[1]	67.7%	83.3%	82.7%	79.7%	63.4%	51.7%
Columbia Borough [2]	64.0%	71.1%	66.1%	56.9%	47.7%	25.2%
Conestoga Valley [3]	71.3%	82.1%	76.9%	75.5%	75.7%	68.0%
Donegal [4]	63.0%	69.2%	70.0%	62.1%	70.7%	57.2%
Eastern Lancaster County [5]	69.6%	84.0%	84.2%	78.8%	73.6%	58.4%
Elizabethtown Area [6]	70.6%	81.4%	80.9%	76.9%	72.1%	64.4%
Ephrata Area [7]	67.7%	82.8%	81.1%	71.0%	61.4%	65.0%
Hempfield [8]	80.3%	80.0%	81.3%	79.7%	75.7%	73.4%
Lampeter-Strasburg [9]	83.6%	83.0%	90.0%	84.2%	78.6%	70.1%
Lancaster [10]	45.6%	59.8%	46.5%	42.4%	41.5%	31.2%
Manheim Central [11]	72.1%	79.1%	77.9%	66.8%	74.2%	62.3%
Manheim Township [12]	80.1%	86.9%	90.4%	82.6%	82.7%	76.1%
Penn Manor [13]	70.8%	82.0%	78.3%	73.5%	78.1%	71.0%
Pequea Valley [14]	73.8%	83.9%	68.0%	70.1%	72.8%	56.5%
Solanco [15]	77.7%	83.9%	80.5%	75.1%	73.1%	54.6%
Warwick [16]	71.4%	83.0%	77.5%	75.1%	76.1%	62.5%
^{In some cases, 2 (or even 3) years were aggregated by Pennsylvania Department of Education}