Schools · Plains
Plains, PA schools
5 public, charter and private schools in Plains. Search by name or narrow by level, type or district.
TownTapestry School GradeNew
C−
Plains’s School Grade: C-
The public schools Plains’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 76% of Pennsylvania’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
CTest scoresDGraduation
Pennsylvania school districts we grade (683)Better than 24%
Lower resultsHigher results
Pennsylvania towns with similar household incomes (2,035)Better than 4%
Towns in Luzerne County (36)Better than 22%
High confidence. Built on 1,513 tested students and a graduating class of 556; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change the grade.
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Pennsylvania’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of Pennsylvania only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
- Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in Pennsylvania with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
Test scores · 2020–21
State test results
Math (Wilkes-Barre Area)19%
State average 37.1%
Graduation · class of 2020
83% graduate on time
Graduation rate
83%
PA: 87.5%
Graduating class
556
students
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years. #956 of 1,035 PA towns →
Districts
The district serving Plains
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Every school
All 5 schools in Plains
Showing 1–5 of 5 schools
Solomon/Plains El SchElementary · Grades K–5 · 718 students
C+PublicSolomon/Plains MSMiddle · Grades 6–8 · 758 students
DPublicWilkes-Barre Area HSHigh · Grades 9–12 · 2,569 students
PublicWilkes-Barre Area SD STEM AcademyHigh · Grades 9–12 · 93 students
A+PublicWilkes-Barre Area Career & Technical CenterHigh · Grades 9–12 · 30 students
D-PublicSchool data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.