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Black student results in Wilkes-Barre Area School District

Across 7 schools in Wilkes-Barre Area School District, 25.1% of Black students meet proficient. That is 0.9 points below the Pennsylvania average for Black students.

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31.1%
All students
25.1%
Black
27.4%
Hispanic
41.2%
White

Average across the 7 schools in Wilkes-Barre Area School District with reportable results, giving each school equal weight regardless of size. A group is omitted from a school when too few students were tested to report safely.

The distance inside one district

Among the 7 schools here with at least 25 Black student results, Solomon/Plains El Sch reports 34.4% of Black students meeting the standard. G A R Ms, in the same district, reports 13.5%. That is a 20.9-point spread across schools under one administration, serving one community, funded by one tax base.

Every school in Wilkes-Barre Area School District

Ranked by the share of Black students meeting proficient. Every group is shown alongside, because a school that serves one group well and another poorly is telling you something too.

SchoolAllBlackHispanicWhiteAsian
Solomon/Plains El Sch 42% 34.4% 29.7% 51%
Daniel J Flood El Sch 40.1% 30.6% 38.7% 56.5%
Dr David W Kistler El Sch 36.5% 29.5% 32.4% 52.9%
Heights/Murray El Sch 28.7% 26.8% 28.7% 29.5%
Dodson El Sch 24.4% 22.7% 22.8% 30%
Solomon/Plains Ms 27.3% 18.3% 21.5% 38.3%
G A R Ms 19% 13.5% 17.8% 30.4%

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How to read this. Pennsylvania suppresses results for groups with too few students tested. Schools without a reportable Black student result are excluded rather than shown as zero — 1,156 of Pennsylvania's schools have reportable data. Coverage is grades 3–8; high schools are not included. Because every state sets its own proficiency standard, Pennsylvania figures should not be compared against another state's.

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