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Friday, October 12, 2012

Sac City Unified Scores High | KTXL FOX40

Sac City Unified Scores High | KTXL FOX40:


Sac City Unified Scores High


The seven priority schools of the Sacramento City Unified School District
The academic performance of the Sacramento City Unified School District is up across the board.
The news comes from the release of the state’s academic performance index or API, which is obtained from standardized tests students take in the spring. The API ranges anywhere from a low of 200 to a max of 1,000.
Sacramento City Unified has moved up eight points to 768; however the real reason for the excitement comes from the district’s seven priority schools.
Superintendent Jonathan Raymond explained some of the characteristics of a priority school, “All of these schools ranked in the lowest 20% for achievement in state, and in all but one 100% children qualify for free and reduced lunch.”
Raymond targeted these schools in the spring of 2010. This year, Fern Bacon Middle