The Hollister School District showed improvement across the
board on the annual performance index testing, while other more
rural districts such as Southside, Cienega Elementary, Willow Grove
Elementary and Bitterwater-Tully scored particularly well,
according to the data released last week.
Overall at the Hollister School District, the largest in the
county, the total API figure increased by 22 points to 777, with
800 considered an excellent score. At San Benito High School, the
number dropped from 722 to 720, according to the figures released
by the state. North County Joint Union School District, which
includes Spring Grove School, increased its API from 804 to
824.
The Hollister School District showed improvement across the board on the annual performance index testing, while other more rural districts such as Southside, Cienega Elementary, Willow Grove Elementary and Bitterwater-Tully scored particularly well, according to the data released last week.
Overall at the Hollister School District, the largest in the county, the total API figure increased by 22 points to 777, with 800 considered an excellent score. At San Benito High School, the number dropped from 722 to 720, according to the figures released by the state. North County Joint Union School District, which includes Spring Grove School, increased its API from 804 to 824.
The two largest increases for the testing period – during the 2008-09 school year – in the area’s larger districts came from Sunnyslope Elementary and Maze Middle schools. Sunnyslope went from 741 to 798, and Maze jumped from 742 to 785, according to the data. There were no decreases at the nine schools in the Hollister district.
In the county’s rural schools, Southside School increased from 863 to 888, Willow Grove from 759 to 837, Cienega Elementary from 801 to 844, and Bitterwater-Tully from 825 to 831.
At the Aromas-San Juan Unified School District, the API figure rose from 687 to 711 overall. Anzar High School had a particularly large increase, from 692 to 749, according to the data. San Juan School, meanwhile, dropped from 672 to 650.
Some of the larger decreases on the API came at Jefferson Elementary, from 782 to 735, and San Andreas Continuation High School, from 600 to 561, according to the data.
Every spring, the California Department of Education also ranks public schools on two scales, ranging from one to 10. The first scale compares each school to all schools statewide and the second scale compares each school to 99 others with similar demographics.
On that 1-10 scale, Hollister schools performed in the middle when compared to statewide schools and scored above average when compared with similar ones.
