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State's schools improve in new round of testing
Bee Metro Staff
Published 12:00 am PDT Thursday, May 22, 2008
Story appeared in MAIN NEWS section, Page A4
New test score rankings released Wednesday show the percentage of California schools meeting or exceeding the state's performance targets rose at all three levels: elementary, middle school and high school.
The rankings are available on a school-by-school basis, and offer educators, parents and community members a means of seeing how well their schools are performing.
To view the new rankings, visit www.cde.ca.gov/api. School rankings are on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the highest. The rankings are provided in two ways: compared to all schools in the state, and compared to schools with similar socioeconomic characteristics.
The state Department of Education rankings are based on tests given to California students in the spring of 2007. The tests provide the basis for the state's Base Academic Performance Index (API), which runs from 200 to 1,000. The state wants schools to score 800 or higher. Across the state, 36.7 percent of elementary schools met that performance target in 2007, as did 24.6 percent of middle schools and 14.5 percent of high schools. All three percentages were up over the prior year.
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell said he was pleased by the rising scores.
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