We’ll have a story running tomorrow about how our local schools and districts fared on the state Academic Performance Index (API) and federal Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) program - two ways of measuring student achievement.

In short, while many schools and districts did well on the API, an increasing number of San Mateo County schools and districts are being tagged as needing to improve under the federal system and thus face sanctions such as undergoing a complete overhaul.

In all, 45 county schools this year are labeled “program improvement,” of which 15 are new to the list.

The results came out today from the state Department of Education.

You can read a regional story of the results here that’s running online, but our story should also be online shortly.

Below is a pretty good detailed summary from the San Mateo County Office of Education of those results locally.

Much of this I wasn’t able to include in the story, so I want to post the summary here:

-Twenty districts (83.3%) showed an increase in their API growth score.

-Four districts showed a decrease in their API growth score: Jefferson Elementary, Portola Valley Elementary, San Mateo County Office of Education, Woodside Elementary

-Eleven districts (45.8%) had an API growth score at or above 800, the target set by the (state) to which all districts and schools should aspire

-101 schools (65.2%) out of 155 schools with API targets met both their schoolwide and subgroup growth targets in 2009. In 2008, 87 schools (55.4%) out of 157 schools with API targets met both their schoolwide and subgroup growth targets.

-Eighty-six schools (52.4%) had an API growth score at or above 800 in 2009. In 2008, 77 schools (50%) had an API growth score at or above 800.

-Of the 24 districts in San Mateo County, seven districts (29.2%) made AYP in 2009. In 2008, nine districts (37.5%) made AYP.

-Of the 175 schools in San Mateo County, 101 schools (57.7%) made AYP in 2009. In 2008, 103 of the 177 schools (58.2%) made AYP.

-Eight of the 24 districts in San Mateo County are in program improvement (a federal list of school agencies in various years of needing to improve):
-Two in Year 1: San Mateo Union, San Mateo-Foster City Elementary
-Four in Year 2: Jefferson Union, Redwood City Elementary, Sequoia Union, South San Francisco Unified
-Two in Year 3: Cabrillo Unified, Ravenswood City Elementary

-Thirty schools remain in program improvement: two in Year 1, five in Year 2, eight in Year 3, three in Year 4 and 12 in Year 5

-Fifteen schools entered Year 1 of program improvement: Bayshore Elementary, Garnet J. Robertson Intermediate, California Virtual Academy, Susan B. Anthony Elementary, Westlake Elementary, Lomita Park Elementary, James Flood Magnet Elementary, Edison-Brentwood Elementary, John Gill Elementary, Selby Lane Elementary, Parkside Intermediate, Peninsula High, Sequoia High, Los Cerritos Elementary, Martin Elementary