Schools Earn Top API Growth Scores

San Ramon Valley schools showed gains in 2010 Academic Performance Index Growth scores, according to data released Monday by the California Department of Education.

The API measures and compares the academic performance and growth of schools on a variety of academic measures. The state goal for all schools is 800 on the API. The 2010 Growth API measures the amount of growth a school or district makes since the release of the previous Base API.

The overall 2010 API growth score for the district was 916, up three points from the 2009 API Base score of 913.

These results place the San Ramon Valley Unified School District as the seventh highest unified school district in the state and the highest among unified districts with more than 9,000 students.

"One of our goals is to completely eliminate our achievement gap, and we continue to make progress toward this goal" said Superintendent Steven Enoch. "What this data does is provide us with valuable information about how to address this gap so that each of our students are better prepared for the world that awaits them."

Statewide, 37 percent of all California schools are now at or above the overall statewide target API of 800.

The API is the cornerstone of the state's academic accountability requirements. The API is a numerical index (or scale) ranging from a low score of 200 to a high score of 1000. It reflects a school's or district's academic performance based on annual results of statewide testing at grades two through eleven. Each year, schools receive two API reports, the API Base (reported in March) and the API Growth (reported in September).

Highlights from the API Growth Score reports

High schools:

• The district's comprehensive high schools are in the top 4 percent of all high schools statewide.

About specific groups of learners:

• Students classified as "English Learners" (as a group) received the highest API score in the state.
• The subgroups entitled "Socioeconomically Disadvantaged" and "Students with Disabilities" ranked fifth and sixth in the state respectively.

Specific 2010 Growth API numbers as compared to 2009:

Elementary

Creekside

2010: 956

2009: N/A new school

Greenbrook

2010: 938

2009: 944

Green Valley

2010: 927

2009: 917

John Baldwin

2010: 916

2009: 943

Montair

2010: 936

2009: 923

Sycamore Valley

2010: 971

2009: 964

Tassajara Hills

2010: 947

2009: 942

Vista Grande

2010: 938

2009: 954

Middle

Charlotte Wood

2010: 913

2009: 922

Diablo Vista

2010: 927

2009: 935

Los Cerros

2010: 933

2009: 911

High School

Del Amigo

2010: 508

2009: 562

Note: this API is calculated for a small school or LEA, defined as having between 11 and 99 valid Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) Program test scores included in the API. APIs based on small numbers of students are less reliable and therefore should be carefully interpreted.

Monte Vista

2010: 894

2009: 897

San Ramon Valley High

2010: 891

2009: 885

See all scores by school, or, see scores for the San Ramon Valley Unified School District.