 Writing exams were given to children in 5th and 8th grades.In 2009, the academic achievement of the students of the School District of Lancaster was in the bottom 2 percentile of Pennsylvania's 500 school districts.Scale (0-99; 100 is state best) 

In April 2014, the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) released a report identifying fourteen Lancaster School District schools as among the lowest achieving schools in the state, in reading and mathematics.