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How your school measures up in state testing


Published: Friday, November 21, 2008 at 3:00 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, August 14, 2008 at 10:02 a.m.

The state's Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) program serves as the basis for determining whether schools are meeting both state and federal accountability goals. Use the lookup table below to find results for tests taken in 2008 and 2007.

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For each test students receive one of five grades: advanced, proficient, basic, below basic and far below basic.

The state's goal is that all students score at least proficient, a level that is essentially on track to enter a university after high school. The scores shown here represent the percentage of students scoring proficient or advanced, the top two of five achievement levels.

All students are tested in English language arts and math. Other subject tests are given only at specific grade levels. High school students, regardless of grade level, often take the same subject-based exams. Combined grade level scores are represented in grade "13" in the charts.

Scores are not reported whenever 10 or fewer students were tested in the same grade. Some small schools are not included here for that reason. More detailed results are available at http://star.cde.ca.gov.


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  1. professor233 says...
    November 19, 2008 6:34:48 pm

    RE: Link

    If you know anything about the STAR testing system. It is the most ridiculous testing system I have ever come across. You give teenagers a test that has no bearing on their grades, they get nothing in return for doing good or bad, and oh yeah, you get to spend hours taking the boring thing. Yeah, I am going to do the best I can on this thing! Sorry, but most of the students, including myself when I as in school, just check any answer to finish the dumb test so we can visit with our friends. It's not like this is the SAT or ACT test. This has nothing to do with college or the students. It's about people making money of the educational system. They need to throw this testing system out.

  2. ronlemley says...
    November 20, 2008 7:00:43 am

    I agree with the professor. I have also been teaching for 25 years and this testing thing has ruined the public education system by imposing on teachers to devote an inordinate amount of time to teach to the ridgid, semi educational norms of a meaningless standardized evaluation.
    The thing is intended to test it's own shallow, generic information and is geared toward short term memorization rather than the promotion of thinking skills and deductive reasoning.
    My feeling is that it is one of Goerge W's many paybacks to his wealthy friends, one of whom is the CEO of the testing company. The whole NCB movement is a fake educational initiative designed to make money for the ultra rich.
    They sacrifice a well rounded curriculum to promote a one-size-fits-all testing program that is so demanding that it leaves little time for actual teaching.
    If you don't believe this, then how do you explain the fact that so many of us public school grads succeeded to go on to prestigious grad schools years before the movement began?
    The other su****ious thing is that they force the foreign speaking kids to take the same tests.They're taking a 4 hour test in a language that they don't speak. Very useful.