California's annual ritual of ranking all public schools by how well they do on standardized tests shows that more of them are continuing to reach the desirable mark of 800 points on the state's Academic Performance Index (API).But that promising news is tempered by how few schools are actually scoring that well. How did your school do in the API tests? Check our database.
Among elementary schools, 37 percent scored well enough on last year's exams to reach the coveted 800 points on the API - the level at which schools are considered excellent. That's up from 35 percent the year before.
But the older students get, the less well they generally do on the tests.
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