CK - 16 September 2009 03:28 AM

The 2009 academic performance scores were released to the public today—- with scoring by school, district….plus all kinds of other fun stuff like demographics and scoring by sub group.  Interested to hear all of your thoughts on the results of your favorite school.

2009 California API Scores

Wow, my son’s elementary school had the 2nd biggest growth in IUSD and improved from 5th lowest in the district to around the middle of the pack.  I get to start caring now that he is finally a kindergartener…

ipoplaya - 19 September 2009 05:38 AM

CK - 16 September 2009 03:28 AM

The 2009 academic performance scores were released to the public today—- with scoring by school, district….plus all kinds of other fun stuff like demographics and scoring by sub group.  Interested to hear all of your thoughts on the results of your favorite school.

2009 California API Scores

Wow, my son’s elementary school had the 2nd biggest growth in IUSD and improved from 5th lowest in the district to around the middle of the pack.  I get to start caring now that he is finally a kindergartener…

Yes, it’s amazing how having a child start school suddenly perks up your ears to these things, I’m experiencing this myself right now. How has the start of Kindergarten been, IPO?

tmare - 19 September 2009 03:35 AM

Mcdonna1980 - 19 September 2009 12:51 AM

I will call next week. I was also randomly digging into some other high school’s scores. Every single one had some degree of tests excluded even after accounting for the ELS, disability, parent request, etc. Very interesting.

Give me some names and I’ll check those out also. Are you finding that the Fullerton High problem is the extreme or are there others like this? I can understand that somewhere near 75% of high school students are included in the API, I’m more interested in the number actually tested compared to the number included in the API, from all I can see, the two numbers should be very close.

For example, Uni High excluded 4% from the number of students tested while Costa Mesa High excluded 10%. There was two in another county that were close to 15% off but I can’t find the schools again.
I left a message for the Principal at Fullerton but haven’t heard back. I keep you updated when I do.

tmare - 19 September 2009 02:50 PM

ipoplaya - 19 September 2009 05:38 AM

CK - 16 September 2009 03:28 AM

The 2009 academic performance scores were released to the public today—- with scoring by school, district….plus all kinds of other fun stuff like demographics and scoring by sub group.  Interested to hear all of your thoughts on the results of your favorite school.

2009 California API Scores

Wow, my son’s elementary school had the 2nd biggest growth in IUSD and improved from 5th lowest in the district to around the middle of the pack.  I get to start caring now that he is finally a kindergartener…

Yes, it’s amazing how having a child start school suddenly perks up your ears to these things, I’m experiencing this myself right now. How has the start of Kindergarten been, IPO?

It’s been good, thanks for asking.  My son likes his teacher and has been enjoying what he has been doing in class.  I can already see an improvement in his writing…

Doesn’t like the homework much but we have been punching out the whole week’s worth on Monday or by Tuesday at the latest.  We’ve been doing extra baseball practices to get ready for the start of the season so it’s made for a couple of long and tiring weeks.

Rainbow Rising took some getting used to for him.  There is a kid there that gets in trouble constantly and that perturbs my son a bit.  He doesn’t like to play with him because the kid “doesn’t follow the rules” and “doesn’t listen to the teachers”.  That was a proud daddy moment for me when my 5-year old decided on his own to stay away a potential bad influence…

ipoplaya - 22 September 2009 06:04 PM

tmare - 19 September 2009 02:50 PM

ipoplaya - 19 September 2009 05:38 AM

CK - 16 September 2009 03:28 AM

The 2009 academic performance scores were released to the public today—- with scoring by school, district….plus all kinds of other fun stuff like demographics and scoring by sub group.  Interested to hear all of your thoughts on the results of your favorite school.

2009 California API Scores

Wow, my son’s elementary school had the 2nd biggest growth in IUSD and improved from 5th lowest in the district to around the middle of the pack.  I get to start caring now that he is finally a kindergartener…

Yes, it’s amazing how having a child start school suddenly perks up your ears to these things, I’m experiencing this myself right now. How has the start of Kindergarten been, IPO?

It’s been good, thanks for asking.  My son likes his teacher and has been enjoying what he has been doing in class.  I can already see an improvement in his writing…

Doesn’t like the homework much but we have been punching out the whole week’s worth on Monday or by Tuesday at the latest.  We’ve been doing extra baseball practices to get ready for the start of the season so it’s made for a couple of long and tiring weeks.

Rainbow Rising took some getting used to for him.  There is a kid there that gets in trouble constantly and that perturbs my son a bit.  He doesn’t like to play with him because the kid “doesn’t follow the rules” and “doesn’t listen to the teachers”.  That was a proud daddy moment for me when my 5-year old decided on his own to stay away a potential bad influence…

Sounds a lot like my little guy, I don’t know what we did to get such a law abiding 5 year old but I’ll definitely take it. He has a little girl who has never attended preschool in his class, she’s decided that she’s in love with him and follows him everywhere, pawing all over him. The teachers are having some trouble with her but my son has been very tolerant of this. Mine is also not too fond of homework already and our activities (especially Splashball) are making it hard to find the time. We have been doing quite a bit of it on the weekends. It’s a brand new world for all of us.

Mcdonna1980 - 17 September 2009 11:19 PM

tmare - 17 September 2009 10:54 PM

Mcdonna1980 - 17 September 2009 10:51 PM

Tmare, but I found the smaller sample sizes in High Schools too. Interesting enough the High Schools with big gains in the API had real small sample sizes.

Our testing coordinator is still checking up on this, could you give me the names of a few of these schools? I’ll look them up and then I can be more specific with my questions.

All of Irvine’s High Schools only included 67 to 74% of the student body in the API scores. Fullerton High is really weird as they only included 11 students and had a 177 point gain in their API.

Sorry for lagging on this but I finally have an answer regarding Fullerton. It’s a mistake and they will be updating the scores eventually. The real score has yet to be determined.

I still don’t know why there is a varying degree of % of student tested and % of students included in the API score amongst the other high schools. I called Costa Mesa and could not get an answer as to why 10% of the students tested were not included.

Mcdonna1980 - 09 October 2009 04:54 PM

Mcdonna1980 - 17 September 2009 11:19 PM

tmare - 17 September 2009 10:54 PM

Mcdonna1980 - 17 September 2009 10:51 PM

Tmare, but I found the smaller sample sizes in High Schools too. Interesting enough the High Schools with big gains in the API had real small sample sizes.

Our testing coordinator is still checking up on this, could you give me the names of a few of these schools? I’ll look them up and then I can be more specific with my questions.

All of Irvine’s High Schools only included 67 to 74% of the student body in the API scores. Fullerton High is really weird as they only included 11 students and had a 177 point gain in their API.

Sorry for lagging on this but I finally have an answer regarding Fullerton. It’s a mistake and they will be updating the scores eventually. The real score has yet to be determined.

I still don’t know why there is a varying degree of % of student tested and % of students included in the API score amongst the other high schools. I called Costa Mesa and could not get an answer as to why 10% of the students tested were not included.

I think that it is reasonable to expect that at a school like CMHS that they could have 10% of their students in the categories of 1st year English, Special Ed with accommodations, parent request and whatever other reasons exempt the test from being counted, it’s those that are over about 20% that I would really question.