I finally got around to sorting state-level test score data, something I've been meaning to do since the Academic Performance Index release last month. (Boy, is it harder than it should be. Those mismatched column headers...)
Five of Oakland's schools are up in the top 100 -- roughly 1 percent of all public schools in California -- when sorted by API: the three American Indian Model charter schools, Montclair and Hillcrest.
The American Indian Public Charter School in East Oakland's Laurel District was the highest-performing middle school in the state, with an API of 988. (Not including schools with K-8 or 6-12 grade configurations, whose middle school scores aren't broken out here.)
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