County Academic Performance Information & News from Ventura County Star (Ventura, CA)

School Data

Budget Cuts
AYP
API

The Ventura County Star sent questionnaires to all 21 local school districts, asking about jobs eliminated, class-size increases, days cut and programs trimmed because of budget woes. Only one district, Santa Paula Elementary, declined to respond.

API scores for Ventura County schools:

Each dot represents an individual school. The color denotes the API score. Click on the dot for more information.

California measures schools' performance using the Adequate Yearly Progress report and the Academic Performance Index. The AYP report, required by the federal No Child Left Behind Act, tracks performance through standardized tests and other factors. The API is a number, ranging from 200 to 1000, used to rank schools. The state's target score is 800; half the schools in Ventura County currently meet or exceed that number. Schools that fail to meet their goals enter Program Improvement Status and are subject to extra requirements, such as allowing students to transfer to different schools.

Directions: To find detailed information on your local school, zoom in to your neighborhood on the map and click on the school marker. API ranks for 2008 and 2009 are listed, as well as their Growth Target and Actual Growth. The listings also indicate whether a school's Subgroups, including racial, economic and disability subgroups, met the goals. Achievement of AYP standards in Math, Language, and Graduation Rates is indicated. Program Improvement Status details how many years a school has been in Program Improvement; schools that do not receive Title I funds are not subject to Program Improvement.

Visit the California Department of Education Web site for Full County API Results or Full County AYP Results.

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Urgency legislation should be enacted to immediately prevent agencies from entering into new contracts or taking on new financial obligations.
Redevelopment agencies should be disbanded on July 1 and successor local agencies designated to ensure existing debts and financial obligations are paid off.
An estimated $3 billion would be left over in 2011-12 fiscal year after debt payments are made. Of that, $1.3 billion would go for a one-time payment to local agencies such as counties and school districts and $1.7 billion would go to the state general fund.