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Report Gives SRVUSD Schools C-plus For Educating Poor, Minority Students

Among the 147 school districts that were ranked in the Bay Area, the SRVUSD was considered to be the more higher-scoring districts.

Though a recent report ranked the San Ramon Valley Unified District higher than most Bay Area school districts in educating poor, minority students, these "district report cards" are not something to proudly hang up on their refrigerators any time soon.

Among the 147 districts that were rated in 2011 by education advocacy group, Education Trust—West, none received neither A's nor B's. SRVUSD scored the highest with a C-plus. Castro Valley came in second with a C, along with Gilroy and South San Francisco.

Schools were evaluated on seven criteria all based on how well the districts educate their students of color and those from low-income families. The grades weighed the following:

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  • Performance levels among students of color and low-income students
  • Improvement among students of color and low-income students
  • Size of achievement gap between black, Latino and white students
  • College readiness among black and Latino students.

SRVUSD faired the same this year as last year.

The report focused on about 15 percent of school districts in California with 5,000 or more students that serve kindergarten through 12th grades. An article by Mercury News states that in general, Bay Area schools did worse than their Southern California counterparts.

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