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Temecula API Scores in State's Top 10 Percent

Four elementary schools API scores are among the highest in the state.

Four elementary schools’ API scores ranked among the state’s highest.

, Alamos, and elementary schools were among California’s top 10 percent, according to the Department of Education.

Nine elementary schools from the county made the top 10 percent, though no middle or high schools did.

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The department of education published its 2010 Base Academic Performance Index, with a list of schools indicating whether they were meeting, exceeding or falling below the previous year's level of achievement.   

The state ranks schools on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 representing the top 10 percent, to determine a school's standing compared to other schools around the state.

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The rankings are based on the school's base API, which is calculated based on results of the Standardized Testing and Reporting Program and California High School Exit Exam.

Individual school districts were included in the report, which revealed how they scored in relation to the CDE's target of 800.   

The statewide base API was 768. The base for elementary schools was 800, while it was 765 for middle schools and 729 for high schools.

Individual school districts were included in the report, which revealed how they scored in relation to the CDE's target of 800.

The report showed all but one school district in Riverside County -- Banning Unified -- exceeded its previous year's level of achievement.

The scored above 800, along with five others: Corona-Norco Unified, Lake Elsinore Unified, Menifee Union and Murrieta Valley Unified.

“Today signifies the beginning of a new reporting cycle of testing and reporting under the API, which gives us one measure of school's academic performance,” said Tom Torlakson, the state superintendent of Public Instruction. “This is the jumping-off point where, based on last year's testing results, schools are given a number of points by which they must grow in order to satisfy the requirements of our state accountability system.”

Statewide, the base API was 838 for white students, 851 for Filipinos and 890 for Asians. The API was 686 for black students, 715 for Hispanics, 692 for English-learners and 712 for financially disadvantaged students.

City News Service contributed to this report.


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