* based on state rankings
Students who did not sleep through their science classes know that what goes up must come down, for every action there is an opposite reaction and if the California
Department of Education releases Academic Performance Index rankings that can be used to list the top 10 schools based on statewide test scores, another list will be presented of the bottom 10 in the API.
We shared the top 10 schools in Orange County earlier What follows after the jump are the bottom 10 (in descending order) . . .
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9.) (tie) Katella, Anaheim (699)
Loara, Anaheim U (699)
8.) Anaheim High (698)
7.) Orange High (687)
6.) Savanah, Anaheim U. (679)
5.) Magnolia, Anaheim U (677)
4.) Santa Ana High (591)
3.) Saddleback, Santa Ana (616)
2.) Century, Santa Ana (591)
1.) Valley, Santa Ana (565)
Disclaimer: The rankings for Junipero Serra (568), Polaris (617), Coast (686)
and La Entrada (670) were low enough to make this list. However, the state
warned that because they are small and/or alternative schools, the student sampling was so low that one should be wary comparing their scores to larger schools like those shown here.
OC Weekly Editor-in-Chief Matt Coker has been engaging, enraging and entertaining readers of newspapers, magazines and websites for decades. He spent the first 13 years of his career in journalism at daily newspapers before “graduating” to OC Weekly in 1995 as the alternative newsweekly’s first calendar editor.