Sentences with phrase «academic performance index»

«In Los Angeles, properties located in high ranking school districts, which is California's Academic Performance Index, school districts with scores of 9 - 10 + always sell at a premium.

The School Quality Improvement Index, which was developed by the California Office to Reform Education (CORE), is a significant jump away from the Academic Performance Index (API), which was discontinued after 2013 as the state transitioned to the Common Core - aligned Smarter Balanced tests, which debuted last year.

Scores analyzed included those from the Academic Performance Index (API), Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP), Annual Measurable Achievement Objectives (AMAO) and the California English Language Development Test (CELDT).

Question: How does the State set a charter school's new Academic Performance Index (API) Growth target for the new school year?

Results on next spring's Smarter Balanced tests are expected to become the base scores for reviving the state's Academic Performance Index, or API, which was suspended last year.

(1) The Open Enrollment Act mandates that the California Department of Education to annually create a list of 1,000 schools ranked by their Academic Performance Index.

These results are highlighted in CCSA's Chartering and Choice as an Achievement Gap - Closing Reform: The Success of California Charter Schools in Promoting African American Achievement, which shows that, overall, charter schools in California are effectively accelerating the performance of African American public school students, and are earning higher Academic Performance Index (API) scores and proficiency rates statewide, in many urban districts and across all subjects when compared with traditional public schools.

Up to now, the Academic Performance Index - created by the state to meet federal accountability mandates - has been based solely on standardized student test scores.

According to the Cowen institute, Green Dot schools «average more than 76 points higher on the California Academic Performance Index.»

The current list identifies schools from 515 school districts — some with an Academic Performance Index as low as 374 (the state targeted goal is 800).

During her tenure, LCW, another «diverse by design» school, received an Academic Performance Index (API) score of 932 in 2013, compared to a district wide score of 750 and statewide score of 790.

In 2010, Rocketship Mateo Sheedy Elementary and Rocketship Sí Se Puede Academy ranked 5th and 15th among all California schools serving 70 percent or more low - income students on the state's Academic Performance Index.

In CORE's new system, a school with high test scores won't necessarily be ranked the highest, like it was with California's Academic Performance Index (API), which was discontinued in 2013 to give the state time to transfer over new Common Core - aligned standardized tests and develop a new accountability system.

The maps illustrate under - enrollment, free or reduced - price lunch rates, and school performance as captured by the Academic Performance Index.

Yet, in reviewing and using California's new system, I do find the data more useful and informative than the former Academic Performance Index (API) system.

The decision shocked parents and community members because the schools are among the best in the city, both well above the state goal of 800 on the academic performance index.

They follow years of reliance on the now - suspended Academic Performance Index, a measure that depended on test scores that, in the words of board member Bruce Holaday, «make real estate agents so happy» in its simplicity.

That act, adopted in 2010 as part of a state effort to qualify for federal Race to the Top grant funding, established a formula for the state superintendent of public instruction to use in creating a list of 1,000 underachieving schools on what's now called the «open enrollment list,» starting with the lowest - achieving schools on California's Academic Performance Index.

Alternative charter schools have complained that the association's accountability system relies too heavily on the Academic Performance Index - which does not always account for the kinds of students and their varied problems that end up in the alternative programs.

Based on state standardized test results, the Academic Performance Index (API) score is a snapshot of how students are doing academically at a school.

Academic Performance Index scores (at least at the two small schools we can find them for) are similarly dismal: between 500 and 575.

Even given the per - pupil cost differential, Alliance schools have significantly higher Academic Performance Index (API) scores, 762 vs. 701, and better average SAT scores than LAUSD students, 1417 vs. 1299.

It's been five years since the Academic Performance Index, which ranked California schools on test scores, was discontinued as the state developed its new school rating system, the California School Dashboard.

Parent Revolution focused its petition drive on McKinley Elementary School, which has an Academic Performance Index score of 684, one of the lowest in the Compton Unified School District.

All but one of the students at her school, San Pedro Street Elementary, are impoverished and most are not fluent in English, according to the state's database, yet the school's most recent Academic Performance Index score was 814, above the state target of 800.

The days of California's Academic Performance Index and the federal No Child Left Behind Act are over, and they won't be missed.

Although the state intends to release scores to parents and districts in the next few months, it does not plan to use them to create the familiar Academic Performance Index, or API scores, which the public has relied on in the past to compare schools.

For example, one school saw a dramatic improvement in five high - priority metrics included in the culture plan, including a 59 % reduction in the amount of out - of - school suspensions between the 2012 - 13 and 2013 - 14 school years, a 56 % reduction in classroom off - task / disruptive behaviors across nine grade levels, and an increase from 57.2 % to 59 % in Academic Performance Index in just one school year, with a Value Added grade of C for the first time in more than five years.

The high school gains reflected broader improvements in kindergarten - through - 12th - grade achievement this year on the Academic Performance Index.

Until 2014, California schools were rated using a single score, the Academic Performance Index (API), based exclusively on test scores.

Last year, less than half (47 %) of Sacramento City Unified schools met their Academic Performance Index targets, according to the California Department of Education.

The school lost $ 3.5 million a year because it didn't improve its API (Academic Performance Index) score and lost the state's Quality Education Investment Act (QEIA) money, which was provided as an incentive for failing schools.

And schools would be without Academic Performance Index scores for the next two years.

The Academic Performance Index (API), which reported a single score, was discontinued after 2013 as the state transitioned to the Common Core - aligned Smarter Balanced tests, which debuted last year.

Teachers and administrators attributed the improved results on the state's Academic Performance Index to an intense focus on California's academic standards in English and math, which spell out the skills and material students are supposed to know at each grade level.

The new streamlined process comes in addition to the board's existing streamline wavier process for high - performing district with scores of 800 or higher on the Academic Performance Index.

The Academic Performance Index gave us very little guidance in trying to help schools with low numbers because it did not identify specific areas where schools were falling short.

It is interesting to note that California's Department of Education, in conjunction with the state board, has been working to develop its own new accountability system having discarded the Academic Performance Index in the wake of new funding and assessment systems.

This data is based solely on test scores, as was the old state accountability system, the Academic Performance Index (API).

Manual Arts High School students with disabilities jumped 71 points on the Academic Performance Index in a year where the special education department was staffed primarily by Teach For America - Los Angeles corps members and alums.

Magnolia Public Schools (MPS) reports outstanding gains in 2012 Academic Performance Index (API) scores for its 12 schools, with an average increase of 27 points, outpacing average district gains where the schools are located.

He noted that Latino scores on the state's Academic Performance Index increased 40 points in 2012.

Top 10 Elementary Schools in Latino Academic Performance Index School District 2012 Growth API Rocket ship Mateo Sheedy charter Santa Clara Co Ofc.

Equitas Academy's 2012 - 2013 API score: 894 The Academic Performance Index (API) is a single number assigned to each school by the California Department of Education to measure overall school performance and improvement over time on statewide testing.

In 2012, Oxford in Mission Viejo earned a near - perfect 993 in the Academic Performance Index, the state's primary measure of academic success.

The California State Board of Education has not yet devised a replacement for the Academic Performance Index (API), which was suspended in the 2014 — 15 school year.

Elementary and middle - school charters had to show a score of at least 700 — 650 if it had been open three years or less — on the state academic performance index scale of 200 to 1000.

Overall, charter schools in the district scored 29 points higher on California's Academic Performance Index, with low - income students, Latinos, English language learners and blacks all outperforming their peers

Not too long ago, California released its statewide 2012 annual school rankings, listing the top - performing schools in the state, based on the Academic Performance Index (API), which is calculated from standardized test results.

Accountability in California is still evolving — there are many questions about the LCAP, the LCAP rubrics, the state replacement for the Academic Performance Index (API), and the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).