Purpose The
Academic Performance Index rates California's public schools and sets
targets for the schools to achieve. What
the categories mean: API scores:
The state uses the Academic Performance Index to rank schools based on
test scores. The rankings are based on student's scores on state
standard tests, the California Achievement Test and the California High
School Exit Exam. The API is graded on a scale of 200 to 1,000, with
800 being the statewide target. Statewide ranking:
This ranking rates schools across the state on a scale of 1 to 10. A
school with a 10 falls in the top 10 percent of every school in the
state. A school with a 1 is in the bottom 10 percent. Alternative high
schools are not ranked. Similar-school ranking:
In this ranking, schools are rated on how well they do compared with
100 similar schools, based on such criteria as ethnicity, socioeconomic
status and percentage of students who don't speak English as their
first language. Like the statewide ranking, the scale is 1 to 10, with
10 being the highest. 2008 API Target:
This is the minimum score schools need to reach in this year's testing.
Schools that are already at 800 or above, the state's goal, don't
receive a target, but must stay in the 800 range. Schools will learn in
August whether they reached their targets, based ontests students
recently took.
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