Hermosa Beach City School District Ratings

If the Hermosa Beach Schools were not worth saving then the people who are trying to save them might just be considered emotional or nostalgic or something other than logical. So let's take a look at the quality of the schools here.

GreatSchools.org ranks schools using a variety of test scores. Their relevant results are:
LAUSD ranking - 4 out of 10
Hermosa Beach Schools ranking - 10 out of 10

2010 Growth API Report
LAUSD - 709
Hermosa Beach City Elementary - 936
Manhattan Beach Unified - 926


LA Times:
LAUSD - why bother
Hermosa Valley Elementary

• API Rank 10/10
• API Index - 937
• Math Proficiency - 86.8%
• English Proficiency - 86.9%

Hermosa View Elementary

• API Rank 10/10
• API Index - 938
• Math Proficiency - 88%
• English Proficiency - 88%

Manhattan Beach - Pennecamp

• API Rank 10/10
• API Index - 957
• Math Proficiency - 94.8%
• English Proficiency - 89.3%

I don't know why there are differences in the rankings reported in different places. Manhattan Beach has five elementary schools, and I did not feel like doing more data entry. Manhattan beach outperforms Hermosa Beach in some rankings, and Hermosa ranks higher in others. LAUSD is a no show. Not worth even mentioning.

From these numbers it is very obvious that Hermosa Beach schools are very good. By one ranking I saw, they were in the top 30 in the state of California. Remember, that California has the 8th largest economy in the world, and Hermosa Beach City School District was ranked 30th in California. Worth saving?

Also remember that the difference between good schools and bad schools can be responsible for as much as a 30% difference in home prices. Are you interested in your kids' future? Are you interested in the future competitiveness and economic success of California and the United States? Do you care if your home falls in value by $150,000 to $1,000,000 ? Then let us all make sure that the Hermosa Beach schools stay solvent, successful, and really really good.

STRATEGIC PLANNING COMMITTEE MEETING
Thursday, March 3, 2011 @ 6:00PM

Hermosa Valley School, Multipurpose Room
1645 Valley Drive • Hermosa Beach, CA

Hermosa Beach City Council
Peter Tucker           Mayor                         peter@electpetertucker.com
Howard Fishman    Mayor Pro Tempore  kkfish@earthlink.net
Jeff Duclos             Councilmember         jeff@jeffduclos.com
Patrick "Kit" Bobko Councilmember         kit.bobko@gmail.com
Michael DiVirgilio    Councilmember         mdivir@gmail.com

Councilmembers' phone number (310) 318-0216
Councilmembers' fax number (310) 372-6186

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