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Marin schools receive top honors

Saturday, April 17th, 2010

Six Marin schools were honored by the Department of Education today.

The schools – Anthony G. Bacich Elementary School in Kentfield, Bel Aire Elementary School and Reed Elementary School in the Reed Union School District, Old Mill School in Mill Valley, West Marin-Inverness Elementary School in the Shoreline Unified School District and Willow Creek Academy in the Sausalito Marin City School District – are some of the 484 of the state’s 5,764 elementary schools to receive the distinction.

The Distinguished Schools program honors elementary schools based on their Academic Performance Index and Adequate Yearly Progress results. The program also honors schools that have worked to narrow a perceived “achievement gap” between higher- and lower-performing students.

Marin County has received 89 Distinguished School awards since the program began in 1986; 2010 marks the second consecutive year the county has received a record total of six distinctions. Marin’s six Distinguished Schools will be honored during an awards ceremony and dinner at the Disneyland Hotel on June 4.

2010 Distinguished Schools [Department of Education]

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Marin scores high on STAR tests

Thursday, August 16th, 2007

The 2007 STAR test results were released Wednesday and Marin students did not disappoint. As usual, Marin kids scored much higher than the state average.

This year, the Ross School led the way with all 42 seventh-graders hitting the 100-percent mark. However, results were mixed with disappointing scores from blacks and Latino students.

> From the Marin IJ…

Marin County students scored much higher than the state average on STAR test results released Wednesday, but local Latino, black and English-language learning students continued to struggle.

In Marin, 68 percent of all students are proficient in English, compared with 43 percent across the state. For math, 70 percent of Marin students are proficient, compared with 51 percent across the state.

However, Marin is experiencing the same problems as the rest of the state when factoring in race and students learning English. Marin blacks, Latinos and students considered English-language learners scored above the state average, but the scores were much closer and lag far behind those of white students. Read More >>

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Marin schools best for the buck

Monday, July 16th, 2007

Forbes magazine examined 97 counties and found Marin’s schools the best deal in the country. Study shows that there is a big difference in the quality of education relative to spending among counties. Here are the top 10 winners below…

> From Forbes Magazine…

More spending doesn’t necessarily buy you better schools. With property taxes rising across the country, we took a look at per-pupil spending in public schools and weighed it against student performance–college entrance exam scores (SAT or ACT, depending on which is more common in the state), exam participation rates and graduation rates.

Winners in this rating system are counties whose schools deliver high performance at low cost. The losers spend a lot of money and have little to show for it.

Marin County, Calif., provides the best bang for the buck. In 2004 Marin spent an average of $9,356 ($6,579 adjusted for the cost of living relative to other metro areas in the U.S.) per pupil, among the lowest education expenditures in the country. But in return Marin delivered results above the national average: 96.8% of its seniors graduated, and 60.4% of them took the SAT college entrance exam and scored a mean 1133 (out of 1600). The others in the top five are Collin, Texas; Hamilton, Ind.; Norfolk, Mass.; and Montgomery, Md. Read More >>

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