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Dr David W Kistler Elementary School

Basic InfoStudents and TeachersTest PerformanceSchool District

301 Old River Rd

Wilkes Barre PA, 18702, Luzerne County

Phone: 570-826-7230

Ranking:

(1,847 out of 2,311, bottom 20%)*

Type: Regular Primary School

Status: Currently Operational

Grade: Kindergarten to Grade 6

School District: Wilkes-Barre Area School District

Title I Eligible School: Yes School-Wide Title I: NA

Magnet: NA

Charter: NA

Shared-Time School: NA

Students and Teachers

	2013-2014		2012-2013		2011-2012		2010-2011		2009-2010		2008-2009		2007-2008
	Amount	%	Amount	%	Amount	%	Amount	%	Amount	%	Amount	%	Amount	%
Total Teachers:	60		58		58		61		60		60		112
Total Students:	950		929		949		967		931		906		892
Kindergarten:	132	13.9%	124	13.3%	126	13.3%	132	13.7%	125	13.4%	127	14.0%	108	12.1%
Grade 1:	136	14.3%	146	15.7%	132	13.9%	142	14.7%	128	13.7%	124	13.7%	141	15.8%
Grade 2:	136	14.3%	123	13.2%	146	15.4%	130	13.4%	132	14.2%	134	14.8%	125	14.0%
Grade 3:	126	13.3%	138	14.9%	126	13.3%	133	13.8%	143	15.4%	143	15.8%	130	14.6%
Grade 4:	152	16.0%	131	14.1%	135	14.2%	148	15.3%	132	14.2%	126	13.9%	138	15.5%
Grade 5:	137	14.4%	135	14.5%	138	14.5%	148	15.3%	133	14.3%	127	14.0%	130	14.6%
Grade 6:	131	13.8%	132	14.2%	146	15.4%	134	13.9%	138	14.8%	125	13.8%	120	13.5%
Ungraded:	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
Student By Gender:
Male:	493	51.9%	476	51.2%	475	50.1%	491	50.8%	443	47.6%	448	49.4%	431	48.3%
Female:	457	48.1%	453	48.8%	474	49.9%	476	49.2%	432	46.4%	426	47.0%	457	51.2%
Student By Races:
American Indian/Alaska Native:	1	0.1%	1	0.1%	1	0.1%	2	0.2%	0	0.0%	0	0.0%	0	0.0%
Asian:	16	1.7%	13	1.4%	14	1.5%	15	1.6%	13	1.4%	11	1.2%	7	0.8%
Hispanic:	262	27.6%	239	25.7%	230	24.2%	204	21.1%	189	20.3%	165	18.2%	158	17.7%
Black:	213	22.4%	201	21.6%	196	20.7%	224	23.2%	206	22.1%	183	20.2%	195	21.9%
White:	393	41.4%	428	46.1%	481	50.7%	519	53.7%	475	51.0%	523	57.7%	532	59.6%
Hawaiian Native/Pacific Islander:	0	0.0%	0	0.0%	0	0.0%	0	0.0%	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
Two or More Races:	65	6.8%	47	5.1%	27	2.8%	3	0.3%	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
Lunch Program:
Free Lunch Program Eligible:	687	72.3%	638	68.7%	642	67.7%	630	65.1%	560	60.2%	517	57.1%	428	48.0%
Reduced-Price Lunch Program Eligible:	71	7.5%	76	8.2%	70	7.4%	77	8.0%	100	10.7%	78	8.6%	83	9.3%
Student-Teacher Ratio:	15.89		15.98		16.42		15.92		15.45		15.20		7.90

Test Performance

Year	Test	Grade	Measurement	Score	School District	State Average
PSSA
2005	Math	3rd Grade	% met std	82%	90%	81%
2006	Math	3rd Grade	% met std	88%	88%	83%
2007	Math	3rd Grade	% met std	73.7%	76.6%	78.5%
2008	Math	3rd Grade	% met std	81.1%	82.9%	80.5%
2009	Math	3rd Grade	% met std	67.5%	76.4%	81.7%
2010	Math	3rd Grade	% met std	75%	81%	84.5%
2011	Math	3rd Grade	% met std	68%	76.7%	83.5%
2012	Math	3rd Grade	% met std	66.6%	70.7%	80%
2005	Reading	3rd Grade	% met std	69%	71%	68%
2006	Reading	3rd Grade	% met std	68%	69%	69%
2007	Reading	3rd Grade	% met std	67%	67.7%	72.8%
2008	Reading	3rd Grade	% met std	66.4%	70.7%	76.8%
2009	Reading	3rd Grade	% met std	63%	71.1%	77%
2010	Reading	3rd Grade	% met std	68.5%	62.5%	75.2%
2011	Reading	3rd Grade	% met std	55.8%	65.5%	77.2%
2012	Reading	3rd Grade	% met std	57%	60.4%	74.1%
2006	Math	4th Grade	% met std	69.3%	71.7%	77.2%
2007	Math	4th Grade	% met std	74.8%	74.1%	78%
2008	Math	4th Grade	% met std	71.4%	72.4%	79.6%
2009	Math	4th Grade	% met std	71.9%	81.3%	81.8%
2010	Math	4th Grade	% met std	78.5%	76.3%	84.9%
2011	Math	4th Grade	% met std	53%	75.3%	85.2%
2012	Math	4th Grade	% met std	58.6%	71.3%	82.6%
2006	Reading	4th Grade	% met std	63%	63.3%	68.1%
2007	Reading	4th Grade	% met std	66.4%	62.2%	70.1%
2008	Reading	4th Grade	% met std	66.9%	60.1%	70.1%
2009	Reading	4th Grade	% met std	63.5%	64.5%	72.6%
2010	Reading	4th Grade	% met std	51.7%	53.7%	72.9%
2011	Reading	4th Grade	% met std	51.5%	58%	73.3%
2012	Reading	4th Grade	% met std	50%	54.2%	72.1%
2008	Science	4th Grade	% met std	80.4%	73.2%	81.5%
2009	Science	4th Grade	% met std	74.6%	85.7%	83.4%
2010	Science	4th Grade	% met std	73.3%	77.2%	81.4%
2011	Science	4th Grade	% met std	66.7%	78.7%	82.9%
2012	Science	4th Grade	% met std	74.4%	75.7%	82.3%
2003	Math	5th Grade	% met std	63.8%	62.7%	56.3%
2004	Math	5th Grade	% met std	80.5%	81.8%	61.8%
2005	Math	5th Grade	% met std	77.8%	83.1%	69%
2006	Math	5th Grade	% met std	68.8%	67.8%	66.9%
2007	Math	5th Grade	% met std	67.8%	69.4%	71%
2008	Math	5th Grade	% met std	70.2%	69.9%	73.2%
2009	Math	5th Grade	% met std	78%	73%	73.5%
2010	Math	5th Grade	% met std	65.3%	65%	74.4%
2011	Math	5th Grade	% met std	59.7%	61.3%	76.3%
2012	Math	5th Grade	% met std	44.5%	50.9%	73.3%
2003	Reading	5th Grade	% met std	70.1%	61.6%	58%
2004	Reading	5th Grade	% met std	75.7%	74.6%	62.7%
2005	Reading	5th Grade	% met std	60.6%	71.3%	64.2%
2006	Reading	5th Grade	% met std	58%	59%	60.6%
2007	Reading	5th Grade	% met std	52.7%	55.4%	60%
2008	Reading	5th Grade	% met std	61.4%	53.5%	61.6%
2009	Reading	5th Grade	% met std	55.9%	55.7%	64.5%
2010	Reading	5th Grade	% met std	43.6%	47.7%	64.1%
2011	Reading	5th Grade	% met std	49.3%	52.4%	67.3%
2012	Reading	5th Grade	% met std	42%	42.5%	65%
2006	Writing	5th Grade	% met std	77.9%	70.1%	54.1%
2007	Writing	5th Grade	% met std	73.9%	69.5%	57.3%
2008	Writing	5th Grade	% met std	68.1%	67.6%	57.3%
2009	Writing	5th Grade	% met std	72.4%	66%	58.1%
2010	Writing	5th Grade	% met std	53.6%	54.8%	61.8%
2011	Writing	5th Grade	% met std	71.3%	66%	67.1%
2012	Writing	5th Grade	% met std	63.5%	54.7%	64.2%
2006	Math	6th Grade	% met std	67.8%	69.8%	68%
2007	Math	6th Grade	% met std	64.3%	64.2%	69.6%
2008	Math	6th Grade	% met std	75.6%	72.9%	72.3%
2009	Math	6th Grade	% met std	75.8%	73.1%	75.7%
2010	Math	6th Grade	% met std	70.9%	69.5%	78%
2011	Math	6th Grade	% met std	68.1%	73.2%	78.8%
2012	Math	6th Grade	% met std	61.8%	62.4%	77.2%
2006	Reading	6th Grade	% met std	64.5%	66.8%	65.9%
2007	Reading	6th Grade	% met std	59.6%	56.3%	63.5%
2008	Reading	6th Grade	% met std	60.3%	63.6%	66.9%
2009	Reading	6th Grade	% met std	71.5%	62.6%	67.6%
2010	Reading	6th Grade	% met std	57.9%	53.6%	68.8%
2011	Reading	6th Grade	% met std	53.1%	57%	69.9%
2012	Reading	6th Grade	% met std	54.6%	54%	68.5%

Some data by SchoolDigger.com.

* Dr David W Kistler Elementary School was rated 2 out of 5 by USA.com. The ranking was calculated based on publically available historical Math and English performance data.