Real estate agents use them to tout the desirability of neighborhoods. Parents monitor them to choose schools. Principals live and die by them. But Academic Performance Index scores, the cornerstone ...

For more than a decade, the Academic Performance Index has defined the public’s perception of a school. Parents relied on the three-digit number, tied exclusively to scores on standardized tests, to ...

This year’s results of the Academic Performance Index, often pointed to as a critical benchmark for California schools, dropped slightly, while separate results showed more students passing the ...

San Bernardino County schools continued more than a decade of improvement on standardized test scores, including setting a new high for schools above a key state benchmark, state officials announced ...

Adelante Charter School achieved the greatest academic performance index (API) gain of any school among the Santa Barbara Unified district’s elementary schools, with an increase of 37 points from 2011 ...

Say farewell to the API as you know it. Welcome to new era of accountability, with at least a couple years of confusion in between. The release Thursday of the results on the state’s Academic ...

ORANGE – Orange Unified officials are preparing to contest the state’s decision to strip Fairhaven Elementary School of its 2013 Academic Performance Index score, invalidated because a teacher was ...