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Seventh Grade in Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania public schools are overseen by the Pennsylvania Department of Education. This is the Seventh Grade view of one honest K-12 platform, from the state capital of Harrisburg to the smallest district in between.

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Schools across Pennsylvania

State capital

Harrisburg

Schools statewide, from the capital to every district beyond it.

Serving schools in

Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown, Erie, Reading, and Harrisburg

and the towns in between — the small schools, not only the big ones.

What Seventh Grade looks like here

The identity-and-activities year; settled into secondary structure and now defining themselves through clubs, sports, and a widening social world.

Seventh graders can take real, scoped roles on a yearbook staff -- an emerging student staff learning the craft under an adviser, with section-assignment gates at the data layer.

From the sixth-grade structural jump into a settled, activity-defined middle-school life.

Standards

The academic standards Seventh Grade follows in Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania adopts its own academic standards; the Pennsylvania Department of Education is the authority that sets what a public school teaches. Below are the real, currently listed Pennsylvania standards documents for Grades 6-8, by subject, with a link to each one so you can read it at the source. We write our own free Seventh Grade materials to align with them; we are not the Pennsylvania Department of Education, and we are not endorsed, approved by, or affiliated with it.

English Language Arts

PA Core - English Language Arts (6-12) (2014)

CC.1.2.6.A — Determine the central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.
CC.1.2.6.B — Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly, as well as inferences and/or generalizations drawn from the text.
CC.1.2.6.C — Analyze in detail how a key individual, event, or idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated in a text.

216 individual standards from this document are catalogued in the source corpus for this band; the examples above are a small sample.

Example standards are quoted verbatim under CC BY 3.0 US attribution; read them in full in the source document.

Mathematics

PA Core - Mathematics (PreK-12) (2014)

CC.2.1.6.D.1 (see the source document for the full text)
CC.2.1.6.E.1 (see the source document for the full text)
CC.2.1.6.E.2 (see the source document for the full text)

217 individual standards from this document are catalogued in the source corpus for this band; the examples above are a small sample.

We cite the standard codes and link the source document; the full text is published there.

Science

Pennsylvania Integrated Standards for Science, Environment and Ecology (Grades 6-12) (2022)

3.1.6-8.A (see the source document for the full text)
3.1.6-8.B (see the source document for the full text)
3.1.6-8.C (see the source document for the full text)

179 individual standards from this document are catalogued in the source corpus for this band; the examples above are a small sample.

We cite the standard codes and link the source document; the full text is published there.

Social Studies

Academic Standards for Civics and Government (Elementary) (2009)

5.1.6.A — Explain the effect of the rule of law in protecting property rights, individual rights, and the common good.
5.1.6.B — Compare and contrast a direct democracy with a republican form of government.
5.1.6.C — Explain how the principles and ideals shape local, state, and national government.<ul><li>Liberty/Freedom</li><li>Democracy</li><li>Justice</li><li>Equality</li></ul>

213 individual standards from this document are catalogued in the source corpus for this band; the examples above are a small sample.

Example standards are quoted verbatim under CC BY 3.0 US attribution; read them in full in the source document.

Standard codes and text are drawn from the Common Standards Project / Achievement Standards Network (ASN) corpus, republished by D2L Corporation (CC BY (per-document; see each cell.document.license)). 3rd-party aggregator copy, NOT an authoritative state publication. Verify against each document's own source before treating as authoritative. We do not present this as an authoritative crosswalk; each state agency’s own publication, linked above, is the authority.

Honest by default

The school stays the FERPA custodian of student records; a rep-scoped view reads zero grade rows at the database engine. Money, pricing, and checkout are honest-off on this page, and any school count above is an NCES Common Core of Data reference figure, never a claim of adoption in Pennsylvania.

Where these numbers come from

Data from the NCES Common Core of Data, 2023-2024. Schools may have opened or closed since publication.