In what’s become something of an annual ritual, the state school chief on Friday praised California’s public school students for doing better on its standardized tests than the year before, lamented the achievement gap that leaves black and Latino students scoring worse than their white and Asian peers, and warned that budget cuts imperil future progress.
And in Cupertino, where individual test scores from the STAR prorgram landed in mailboxes recently, students continue to do well, particularly at the elementary level. Two elementary schools—Murdock-Portal and Montclaire—achieved perfect scores in science, and Faria mounted a 99 percent score in English-language arts.
"In less than a decade, California has gone from having only one student in three score proficient to better than one student in two," said Tom Torlakson, state Superintendent of Schools. "As pleased as I am by the great progress many students are making, the deep school budget cuts of recent years make it ever less likely these gains will continue.
The results released Friday marked the ninth straight year that student performance improved on standardized tests in math and language arts.
According to the state Department of Education's press release, about 4.7 million students participated in the 2012 STAR program, with 57 percent scoring proficient or above in English-language arts and 51 percent scoring at proficient or above in mathematics, the highest percentage since the tests were fully aligned in 2003 to California’s content standards, which describe what students should know for each grade and subject tested.
Below are the results for the Cupertino's respective school districts as they compare to Santa Clara County overall in 2012 and 2011; and each individual school's performance in 2012.
District English History Math Science2012 2011 2012 2011 2012 2011 2012 2011 Cupertino Union School 89.6 88.2 84.6 84.4 90.7 89.7 92.0 91.8 Fremont Union High School 77.7 76.5 77.4 77.1 64.8 64.0 79.9 77.1 Santa Clara County 67.6 64.9 58.2 57.3 62.0 61.2 69.6 67.5
Cupertino Union School District - Elementary - 2012
School name English Math Science Blue Hills 91.5 93.0 97.4 Collins 95.996.5
95.3
Eaton 93.4 93.9 89.4 Faria 99.0 99.7 96.9 De Vargas 69.0 81.9 69.4 Dilworth 97.8 98.1 98.8 Eisenhower 83.7 87.0 79.0 Garden Gate 94.3 97.3 99.1 Lincoln 94.6 96.1 97.0 McAuliffe 82.6 72.4 89.7 Meyerholz 94.4 95.8 96.0 Montclaire 92.0 93.1 100 Muir 72.4 88.2 75.2 Murdock-Portal 97.3 99.2 100 Nimitz 64.0 75.7 68.9 Regnart 92.3 95.0 92.5 Sedgwick 88.5 90.2 91.9 Stevens Creek 93.4 95.9 94.6 Stocklmeir 89.6 94.9 93.8 West Valley 89.0 94.4 98.1
Cupertino Union School District - Middle - 2012
School name English History Math Science Cupertino Middle 88.4 81.8 80.9 87.6 Hyde 73.3 60.8 75.0 81.8 Kennedy 95.6 92.3 93.1 96.2 Miller 95.7 92.5 95.2 96.8 Lawson 94.7 91.4 93.2 97.9Fremont Union High School District - 2012
School name English History Math Science Cupertino High 78.3 78.9 69.7 81.5 Fremont 52.4 56.0 31.3 55.4 Homestead 75.9 75.2 56.5 75.0 Lynbrook 88.7 86.7 82.4 91.1 Monta Vista 90.8 89.3 82.6 94.2—Anne Ernst contributed to this article.
