Hermosa Beach students continue to score well
Students in Hermosa Beach’s two public schools improved on last year’s statewide testing marks, according to the latest standardized performance results released this week. The scores of View and Valley students continued to increase in the Academic Performance Index, or API, which is the state Department of Education’s main measure of how schools are performing. Students at the second-through-eighth grade Hermosa Valley School earned 941 out of a possible 1,000 points on the index, improving over last year’s score of 938. Students at the kindergarten-through-second grade Hermosa View School scored 961 out of 1,000 on the index, an improvement over last year’s score of 953. The state standard for acceptable performance is a score of 800. “The Hermosa schools are doing great,” said Tina Jung, information officer for the California Department of Education. Both schools made their API growth targets, according to the report. The API is measured year-to-year to gauge improvement. Where schools ranks as compared to other public schools with similar demographics is released by the Department of Education in the spring. Both Hermosa schools ranked in the top ten percent of similar…
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