State report: PUSD schools continue to exceed state target score
By Steve Dreyer
Seventeen Poway Unified School District schools scored within the top 10 percent of all schools in student performance tests taken in early 2011, according to results released Thursday by the California Department of Education.
The scores showed all PUSD comprehensive high schools, middle schools and elementary school continued to exceed the target of 800 points which the state set for all schools to reach by 2014.
See chart for all PUSD results.
The state also ranks schools academically on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 representing the top 10 percent, to determine a school’s standing compared with other schools statewide. The rankings are based on the school’s base Academic Performance Index, which is calculated for elementary, middle and high schools based on results of the spring 2011 Standardized Testing and Reporting Program and California High School Exit Exam.
PUSD schools ranked among the top 10 percent in the state include: Adobe Bluffs, Canyon View, Chaparral, Creekside, Deer Canyon, Del Sur, Los Peñasquitos, Monterey Ridge, Painted Rock, Park Village, Rolling Hills, Stone Ranch, Sundance and Willow Grove elementary schools; Mesa Verde and Oak Valley middle schools; and Del Norte High School.
Schools were also ranked according to how they compared to schools with similar demographic characteristics, including percentage of college-educated parents and students who speak English as a second language. Schools within the top 10 percent of this sub-category are known as “10/10” schools.
In the PUSD there were three such schools: Del Sur, Los Peñasquitos, and Rolling Hills elementary schools. Los Peñasquitos has achieved 10/10 status eight times in the last nine years. Rolling Hills has achieved 10/10 status five years in the last six. This is the second year Del Sur has achieved 10/10 status.
Thirty-three out of the 36 PUSD schools earned rankings placing them in the top 80 percent when compared to similar schools.
The district’s overall API score was 887.
PUSD students took a new round of standardized tests last month. Preliminary results should be available in August, according to district officials.
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PUSD remains the best of a bad lot.
California averages 47th among states in math, reading, writing, and science as ranked by the US Department of Education.
Just three weeks ago, the USDOE ranked California in science tied with Hawaii, and ahead of ONLY Alabama and Mississippi.
Before we celebrate, we need a it of perspective. Here it is: U.S. students rank internationally 25th in math, 17th in science and California is not even average among US students.
Let's not ignore the schools that need improvement amist all of this hoopla about high rankings. Valley Elementary is still barely above the magic 800 API number and fell from 2010 to 2011, and its overall state ranking has fallen drastically in that same time period (according to the chart linked above.) Valley is a Year 1 Title-I Program Improvement school. Also of concern is Midland Elementary. Midland is on the radar for being a "school at risk" for PI for 2012-2013. See http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/ac/ay/tidatafiles.asp. While the API is well above 800, it ranks badly in math and english-language arts. Let's get these schools up to the standards that the rest of PUSD enjoys.