For the 2010-11 school year, Reading School District administration applied for a School Improvement Grant. It was eligible for funding due to the chronic low achievement at many of the district's schools. These schools included Northeast Middle School, Northwest Area Middle School, Riverside Elementary School, School of the Performing Arts at Glenside, Sixteenth & Haak Elementary School, Southern Middle School, Southwest Middle School, Tenth & Green Elementary School, Tenth & Penn Elementary School, Thirteenth & Green Elementary School, Thirteenth & Union Elementary School and