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New Hope-Solebury HS · New Hope, PA
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PSSA + Keystone, SY 2024-25

All grades, all students. % Proficient or Advanced.
English Language Arts / Literature
88.5%
State avg 51.1%
District avg 75.5%
County avg 59.3%
-1.3pp since 2023-24
Mathematics / Algebra I
74.5%
State avg 43.0%
District avg 71.9%
County avg 52.4%
+4.7pp since 2023-24
Science / Biology
82.5%
State avg 50.6%
District avg 82.5%
County avg 59.6%
-10.7pp since 2023-24

What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 89 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 75 of 100 do math at grade level, and about 83 of 100 are at grade level in science. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51, 43, and 51. Reading and writing scores are down about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points and science scores are down about 11 points.

BeatsExpectations

Demographically-adjusted score · methodology
Tier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
83.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
70.9%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+12.1pp
above demographic expectation

What this means: About 83% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 71% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Pennsylvania's top nor bottom 10%.

BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →

By grade, SY 2024-25

School score vs state average per tested grade.
GradeEnglish Language Arts / LiteratureMathematics / Algebra IScience / Biology
SchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten tested
Grade HS88.5%63.4%10474.5%45.5%10282.5%50.6%103

2-year history

All grades, all students. New Hope-Solebury   Pennsylvania avg

English Language Arts / Literature

55902023-2451892024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2588.5%75.5%59.3%51.1%
SY 2023-2489.8%78.2%62.7%55.1%

Mathematics / Algebra I

41702023-2443752024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2574.5%71.9%52.4%43.0%
SY 2023-2469.8%66.9%49.4%41.4%

Science / Biology

63932023-2451832024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2582.5%82.5%59.6%50.6%
SY 2023-2493.2%89.4%70.1%62.7%

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How to read these scores

What is PSSA + Keystone?
PSSA + Keystone is the statewide standardized test administered by Pennsylvania public schools.
What does "% Proficient or Advanced" mean?
It is the share of students at the school who performed at grade level or above on the test, summed across the top two of four performance levels. A higher number is better.
What does 88.5% mean for English Language Arts / Literature at New Hope-Solebury HS?
It means about 88.5 percent of students tested at New Hope-Solebury HS performed at grade level or above on the PSSA + Keystone English Language Arts / Literature test in 2024-25. The statewide average for Pennsylvania that year was 51.1%. The other students fell into the lower performance levels.
How is the state average calculated?
It is a weighted average, not a simple average of each school's number. We multiply each public school's score by how many of its students tested, add those together for all schools in Pennsylvania, and divide by the total students tested that year. This way a big school with 1,500 students counts more than a small school with 50 students, which is the right way to ask "how did the typical student do this year?". District and county averages on this page use the same method, just scoped to that district or county.
Where does this data come from?
Pennsylvania Department of Education, Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA) for grades 3-8 and Keystone Exams (Literature, Algebra I, Biology) at the high-school level. School-level All Students subgroup, "Percent Proficient and above" column from the PDE school-level data downloads. Top 2 of 4 PA performance levels (Proficient + Advanced).
How often is it updated?
PSSA + Keystone is administered once a year (spring). Results are released by the state in the summer or early fall. We refresh this page after each annual release.

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