Benicia Schools Academic Performance Index has improved once again! Every year public education in California get its API score also known as Academic Performance Index. School officials, teachers, parents, grandparents, and well.... just about anybody who is interested in how our schools fare compared to other schools, waits with bated breath for the results. Every spring 2nd - 11th grade students stop their regular classroom subjects and take the STAR California Standards Test.
Benicia Schools have improved from 815 in 2011 to 853 in 2011 in the API Index. Many of the local elementary, middle and high school have earned the prestigious California Distinguished School honor over the past 10 years. All in all there is much the local residents can be proud about with our schools.
Benicia has many qualities that draw people to move here. Certainly our schools are great, but our weather is temperate (no getting out snow shovels in the winter), no stifling HOT summers in need of air conditioning 24 hrs a day, no traffic lights on First street which runs down the center of town to the Carquinez Straits, close to San Francisco, close to Napa Valley, close to Sacramento, small town feel with about 28,000 residents give or take a few, fantastic parades for the 4th of July and Christmas, Farmers' Market April-Oct, Skate Park, Dog Park, Softball and Soccer and Baseball Fields, outstanding Library, City Recreation Programs to meet any age group, Carquinez Straits for fishing, kayaking, boating, sailing, parks galore, Bay Ridge Trail for hikers and bikers.....WHEW I am getting tired but you get the picture.
Benicia is a great place to live, grow up and grow old!!
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