GECA API Score is 926!

Dr TJ Owens Gilroy Early College Academy once again showed improvement beyond our wildest expectations in the 2011 Academic Performance Index Growth Report according to data released Wednesday, August 31, by the California Department of Education----improving a whopping 34 points and crashing through the 900 "glass ceiling!" 

The API score is the cornerstone of the state’s academic accountability requirements. The API is a numerical index (or scale) ranging from a low score of 200 to a high score of 1000. It reflects a school’s academic performance based on annual high school results of statewide testing at grades nine through eleven. Each year, schools receive two API reports, the API Base (reported in March) and the API Growth (reported in September). Statewide, forty-nine percent of all California schools are now at or above the overall statewide target API of 800. Needless to say, GECA is well beyond the states goals!

Equally important is that the API measures and compares the academic performance and growth of schools on a variety of academic measures and identifies significant populations of a school.  Scores for these specific subgroups at GECA also improved dramatically. Results for the significant populations of GECA are identified by the Department of Education.  GECA significant population of students are:  “English Learners” ---who leaped 141 points (to 876)!  Another subgroup entitled "Hispanic or Latino" soared 50 points (to 897) and “Socioeconomically Disadvantaged” (to 898) scores went up 40 points.

The state goal for all schools is 800 on the API. These results continue to place GECA as the highest high school in Gilroy Unified School District as well as one of the highest high schools in the state!