FAMILY EFFORT LINKED TO BETTER TEST SCORES.Byline: CONNIE LLANOS llanos (yä`nōs), Spanish American term for prairies, specifically those of the Orinoco River basin of N South America, in Venezuela and E Colombia. Staff Writer SANTA CLARITA Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, -- In the Newhall Elementary School elementary school: see school. District, Santa Clarita's most ethnically diverse, the achievement gap is quite visible. While the district had an above-average API of 866, at Stevenson Ranch Stevenson Ranch, California (in the 91381 ZIP Code) is a Los Angeles County, USA, unincorporated community west of Santa Clarita a few miles south of Six Flags Magic Mountain amusement park. The Stevenson Ranch fountain was redone in 2007. Elementary, with a predominantly white and Asian student body, scores peaked at 936, placing the school in the top 10 percent of elementary schools in the state. At McGrath Elementary, where the academic calendar is adjusted to include up to six extra weeks for kids who face problems in the classrooms, the API score was 759 -- a big improvement from last year's score of 745 but still below the Newhall district average. Marc Winger, Newhall district superintendent District Superintendent may be:
"When you have a school like Stevenson Ranch, where you have huge parent involvement and parent-education levels go beyond college, those kids do well. You have a much bigger challenge when you have parents that are working a couple of jobs, who may not have gotten through high school and don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. how to model for their children." Winger added that for a school like McGrath, it is all about involved teachers and staffers who are willing to go the extra mile for students. At McGrath, after-school programs have helped inch the school's API scores upward, as do weekly assessments of children's progress, Winger added that he deals with his diverse district by looking at every school through a growth model. "Everybody has to move forward; it doesn't matter who you are." connie.llanos@dailynews.com (661) 257-5254 CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1) Miguel Vera, 12, left, and Victor Gonzalez, 12, read in Jacque Norton's sixth-grade class at McGrath Elementary School McGrath Elementary is a school in the community of Newhall, California, USA. It opened on 9/16/03. It is part of the Newhall School District. External links
(2) Daisy Gonzalez, 11, center, Marivy Molina, 12, and other students read in Jacque Norton's sixth-grade class at McGrath Elementary School. The school's API score was 759. David Crane/Staff Photographer |
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