There is a published report on the number of adults in Pennsylvania who do not have a high school diploma, identifying the 25 communities with the highest percentage of people aged 25 or over who never finished school.
While the list notes that those 25 communities are rural, what the report does not say is that the vast majority of them have large Amish communities. The Amish educational system only reaches about the eighth grade level.
Using data collected from the U.S. Census Bureau, the report on PennLive.com identifies West Mahoning Township in Indiana County, which has a very large population of Amish, as having the fourth-highest percentage of adults who have not earned a high school diploma. 814 people – 60 percent of the 1,357 adults aged 25 or over living in West Mahoning Township – are not high school graduates.
Twelve of the 25 communities cited for uneducated adults are in Lancaster County.
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