A back-to-school look at the top-scoring school districts in the Pittsburgh region

With Labor Day upon us, many kids in the Pittsburgh region have already or soon will return to school.

And as back-to-school time is underway, that brings the question of which school districts and charter schools get the highest scores on the state standardized tests given to students in public schools every year. It’s a question the Pittsburgh Business Times has been answering for 21 years with its Guide to Southwestern Pennsylvania Schools, which looks at the performance of 105 school districts in the region overall, as well as offers numerous other rankings, including those by grade that also include the charter schools and a ranking of all the districts in the state using the same formula.

Here is a look at the results of that analysis, published every spring and revisited as students (and parents), teachers and administrators start the 2025-26 school year:

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