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Academic Performance Index (API)

API Reports and Data Files

• API Reports
  
  
• API Data Files

2011–12 API Documentation

• Information Guide (PDF)
  
  
• Overview of Accountability (PDF)
  
  
• Parent Guide to California's APR System (PDF)
  
  
  • Available Translations of the Parent Guide to California's APR System
    
    
• Glossary
  
  
• Calculation Spreadsheets Base and Growth (XLS)
  
  
• Descriptive Statistics and Correlation Tables for California's 2011 School Characteristics Index and Similar Schools Ranks (PDF)
  
  
• Letter: Changes to the 2011 Base API
  
  
• Letter: Rescheduled Release of the 2012
  Standardized Testing and Reporting Program Results (PDF)
  

Previous API Documentation

• 2010 Base and 2011 Growth
  
  
• 2009 Base and 2010 Growth
  
  
• 2008 Base and 2009 Growth
  
  
• 2007 Base and 2008 Growth
  
  
• 2006 Base and 2007 Growth
  
  
• 2005 Base and 2006 Growth
  
  
• 2004 Base and 2004-05 Growth
  
  
• 2003 Base and 2003-04 Growth
  
  
• 2002 Base and 2002-03 Growth
  
  
• 2001 Base and 2001-02 Growth
  
  
• 2000 Base and 2000-01 Growth
  
  
• 1999 Base and 1999-00 Growth
  
  

API Training Presentations

• API Calculator Training 2012 Webcast (WMV; 01:12:10)
  
  
  • Text Transcript of the API Calculator Training 2012 Webcast (DOC)
    
    
  • API Calculator Training 2012 (PPT; Posted 24-Sep-2012)
    
    
    • Accessible Alternative Version of the API Calculator Training 2012 (Power Point)
      

Related Sites

• Public Schools Accountability Act (PSAA)
  
  
• Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)
  
  
• Alternative Schools Accountability Model (ASAM)

Other API Information

CalEdFacts API Section
California Department of Education's information and media guide about education in the State of California. For information on other topics, visit the full CalEdFacts.