USC Reviews 800 Campuses, Names Top 10 California Charter Schools

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Recording "financial health and academic performance" data from more than 800 state charter campuses, a USC has issued a ranked report "to strengthen accountability among California charter schools." It includes the very first list of the state's top 10 charter campuses, according to a USC press release.

The fifth annual “USC School Performance Dashboard” (formerly CSI-USC) was released Wednesday by the Center on Educational Governance at the USC Rossier School of Education... “We were really struck by the diversity of the schools in the top 10,” Wohlstetter said. “There’s not one model of schooling that is dominant: they are large and small, urban and suburban, high schools and elementary schools."

Three of the top 10 are affiliated with Aspire Public Schools, a charter management organization, the rest are stand-alone campuses. The full report with "accompanying interactive database," is available online.

The top charter schools were chosen based on academic ratings - including an index based on various state test scores - and school productivity indicators that rate a school's academic success based on its per-student spending.

Listed in order, here are the top 10 charter school performers in California:

1. Heritage K-8 Charter School, Escondido (San Diego County)
2. Rocklin Academy, Rocklin (Placer County)
3. Temecula Valley Charter School, Winchester (Riverside County)
4. Aspire Vincent Shalvey Academy, Stockton (San Joaquin County)
5. Aspire River Oaks Charter School, Stockton (San Joaquin County)
6. Willow Creek Academy, Sausalito (Marin County)
7. Orange County High School of the Arts, Santa Ana (Orange County)
8. St. HOPE Public School 7, Sacramento (Sacramento County)
9. Aspire East Palo Alto Charter School, East Palo Alto (San Mateo County)
10. Wilder’s Preparatory Academy Charter, Inglewood (Los Angeles County)

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By Lisa Brenner in News on June 15, 2011 9:15 AM

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Parents4Magnolia

Congratulations to those ten charter schools! It's very important that we have such successful examples, particularly when the future number of charter schools are being debated in Sacramento..

My son’s high school was ranked 13th among California schools. Magnolia public charter school is famed as one of the best in and around San Fernando Valley; it was awarded the Silver Medal by the US News in "America’s Best High Schools" category.

It was also uplifting to know that the charter school also ranked 114th nationally, an increase from its 291st position last year, when more than 1900 public high schools nationwide are taken into account by the Washington Post.

http://parents4magnolia.org/20...