Public Schools in Pennsylvania
2,930 schools · 747 districts · 1,672,695 students
Largest Schools in Pennsylvania
School data sourced from NCES (National Center for Education Statistics) via the Common Core of Data.
Commonwealth Charter Academy CS
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania Cyber CS
Midland
Reach Cyber CS
Harrisburg
Reading SHS
Reading
Agora Cyber CS
King of Prussia
Chester Community CS
Chester
Upper Darby SHS
Drexel Hill
Hazleton Area HS
Hazle Township
Insight PA Cyber CS
Exton
Northeast HS
Philadelphia
Frequently Asked Questions
Pennsylvania has 2,930 public schools across 747 districts, serving 1,672,695 students.
The largest school in Pennsylvania is Commonwealth Charter Academy CS with 20,355 students. Pennsylvania has 2,930 public schools overall.
The average proficiency rate is 46%. Proficiency rates measure the percentage of students meeting state standards on standardized assessments, as reported by EDFacts.
All school data comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data for enrollment and school characteristics, and EDFacts for proficiency rates and graduation rates.
School data is sourced from NCES enrollment records and EDFacts proficiency and graduation rate assessments. No synthetic scores are used.
this entity is one of the data points covered by this site’s U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment dataset. The detail above comes directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the context that follows situates the headline numbers against the broader distribution across U.S. public schools and districts.
The methodology behind every numeric value on this page is publicly documented on the NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts portal and described in detail on this site’s methodology page. Refresh cadence varies by underlying series; the page surfaces the as-of date for each number so readers can trace any figure back to the source release.
Practical use of this page is in combination with the comparison and ranking pages elsewhere on the site, which surface the same data for this entity’s peers within U.S. public schools and districts. A single-entity reading without peer context can be misleading when an entity is an outlier on one axis but typical on another.