Columbia Borough School District

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Map of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Public School Districts. Columbia Borough School District is the small orange area surrounded by green at the left (west) side 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 Columbia Borough School District is a school district of 1443 students educated in 3 schools in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.^[1] It is a member of Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit (IU) 13.

1 Scholastic performance
2 Failing schools
3 Comparison to other Lancaster County school districts
4 See also
5 References

[edit] Scholastic performance

Attendance at Park Elementary School in Columbia, Pennsylvania during the 2005-2006 school year was 95.11%, slightly higher than the 94.32% scored in the prior year. Students were 75.9% proficient in math, 64.7% proficient in reading.^[2]

Attendance at Taylor Elementary School in Columbia, Pennsylvania during the 2005-2006 school year was 95.25%, slightly lower than the 96.23% scored in the prior year. Students were 71.3% proficient in math, 65.6% proficient in reading.^[3]

Attendance at Columbia Junior Senior High School in Columbia, Pennsylvania during the 2005-2006 school year was 85.12%, a dramatic improvement over the 75.73% scored in the prior year. Students were 41.7% proficient in math, 57.3% proficient in reading.^[4]

[edit] Failing schools

Of the 117 schools in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, only 13 failed to reach all their Adequate Yearly Progress goals, and none of them were in the Columbia Borough School District.

[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}