Pennsylvania Cyber CS

Midland · PA · Pennsylvania Cyber CS · Public charter · K-12 combined


📋 At a glance

Programs & features
  • 📚 6 AP courses offered — Elite
  • ✅ Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
  • ✅ Gifted & talented program
  • 🔢 2 calculus classes · 7 physics · 16 chemistry
Academic signals
  • 🎓 AP rigor: 73rd percentile nationally
  • 📝 SAT/ACT participation: 65th percentile by test-taker volume
  • 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 52% (Bottom 10% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)

Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts graduation data, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.

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How Pennsylvania Cyber CS compares for families

Stronger-than-average college-prep profile.

  • StatewideAP rigor at the 73rd percentile nationally with 6 AP courses.
  • LocallyPA students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+4 points).
  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Mt Lebanon SHS, North Hills HS, Butler Area SHS and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

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🎓 Academic rigor

AP + advanced-course offerings

Elite — exceptional AP + advanced course breadth

73rd percentile nationally

50th 90th ↑ this school
Less rigorMore rigorMost rigor
AP courses offered
6
Math ✓ · Science ✓
Students taking AP courses
132
≈2 per 100 students · uptake, not just offerings
Advanced math classes
14
2 calculus · 12 advanced
Lab science classes
23
7 physics · 16 chemistry
Other rigor signals
✅ Dual-enrollment program
✅ Gifted/talented program

Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). CRDC reports what's offered + enrolled — it doesn't collect AP exam pass rates (College Board owns that data and doesn't release it school-level).

SAT / ACT participation

CRDC federal data · 2020-21

65th percentile by test-taker volume

50th 90th
SAT/ACT test-takers
125
11th-12th graders who took 1+ college admissions test
Test-taking intensity
2.4
takers per 100 students in grades 9-12
Compared against
18,426
US high schools reporting SAT/ACT participation

Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.

🎓 4-year graduation rate · federal EDFacts

What % of students graduate on time?

Bottom 10% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate

50th 90th
4-year graduation rate
52%
Single-point estimate
4-year cohort size
1,793
Students in the 9th-grade entry class tracked over 4 years
Compared against
17,988
US high schools reporting 4-year ACGR

Source: federal EDFacts ACGR (Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate), 2019 vintage via Urban Institute. EDFacts publishes a range (low-high) to preserve privacy on small cohorts; we display the midpoint.

👩‍🏫 Teacher workforce · federal CRDC

Teacher experience & reliability

% inexperienced teachers (1st-2nd yr)
5.2%
Strong: experienced corps. New teachers rotate through but most have ≥3 years in.
% chronic teacher absence (≥10 days/yr)
0.0%
Strong attendance culture among teachers.

Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2017-18 — the most recent vintage that publishes per-school teacher quality fields; the 2020-21 sweep had them suppressed). "Inexperienced" = teachers in their first or second year. "Chronic absence" = teachers absent 10+ days/year.

🏛️ Your state's public flagship

Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus

54%
admit rate
$20,644
in-state tuition/yr · $41,790 out-of-state
1220–1400
SAT 25–75 · ACT 27–32

The in-state tuition gap is the flagship's biggest draw — most in-state families pay far less than the out-of-state sticker. Average net price after aid runs about $32,875/yr. Admission odds depend on your student's GPA and test scores, not which high school they attend.

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Source: IPEDS admissions, tuition & enrollment + College Scorecard net price. Flagship = the state's primary public research university.

Counselor capacity

Student : Counselor
2036:1
Well above the US median — a real constraint on individualized college and course planning.
Counselor FTE
5.0
Full-time-equivalent school counselors on staff.
Teacher FTE
404
Full-time-equivalent classroom teachers.

Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020-2021. Counselor ratio = the school's most recent total enrollment ÷ counselor FTE. The American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommends a 250:1 maximum; the US national median across schools with on-staff counselors is roughly 430:1.

Enrollment trend & projection

Grade 12 went from 993 in 2021 to 1,063 in 2024 — over 3 years.
+7.0%

Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).

If the recent trend holds…

At its recent rate of -0.3%/year, projecting from 2024's 10,178 students:

2025
10,152
2027
10,099
2029
10,047

≈ 131 fewer students by 2029 — a real revenue/relevance risk worth getting ahead of.

An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.

Revenue at risk

At $17,394 per student in district revenue, the 131 students projected to be lost by 2029 represent ≈ $2,278,614/year in funding at risk.

District total revenue ÷ enrollment, NCES F-33. Public funding largely follows enrollment, so a shrinking class is a recurring budget hit.

Most similar nearby high schools

The schools most like this one — same type, blended on distance and size — and where their enrollment is heading. These are the schools families here weigh against each other.

SchoolTypeMilesHS enrollmentTrend
Mt Lebanon SHS
Pittsburgh
Public 27.9 1,772 -2.6%
North Hills HS
Pittsburgh
Public 23.8 1,443 +5.3%
Butler Area SHS
Butler
Public 32.2 1,956 +32.2%
McKeesport Area Technology Center
McKeesport
Public 38.5
Baldwin SHS
Pittsburgh
Public 31.7 1,328 -1.6%
Avonworth HS
Pittsburgh
Public 21.0 579 +8.4%
South Side HS
Hookstown
Public 4.9 272 -14.2%
Riverside HS
Ellwood City
Public 16.9 461 -0.6%

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