A report from the Education Week Research Center shows that graduation rates for charter schools "have suffered from chronically low graduation rates" of less than 50 percent since the 2010-11 school year. Education week further reports about low graduation rates specifically at cyber charter schools. See the article, here: Online charter school graduation trend. You may also see more detailed information about Pennsylvania cyber charter school graduation, here: PA cyber charter schools

At Bellefonte Area High School, the graduation rate is 98 percent of students who start at BAHS the beginning of their senior year and graduate on time; and 92.8 percent of students who start at the high school in their freshman year and graduate within four years, according to data from the PA Future Ready Index. The state average is 86 percent.

There is also a near-100 percent success rate for students passing classes through the district’s BeLA program – Bellefonte eLearning Academy. Cyber Education Coordinator Rebecca Leitzell said that’s because the program is set up in the best interest of the student to boost his or her success.

“If students struggle in BeLA, we can provide them with other options,” she said. “We do not allow them to continue with online learning and fail.”

*By Brit Milazzo, public relations director, BASD. Information provided includes data from the 2018-19 school year as that is the latest complete set of statistics available (prepandemic)