Academic Performance Index (API)

API Reports and Data Files

• API Reports
  
  
• API Data Files

2008 Base API Documentation

• Information Guide  (PDF; 540KB; 77pp.)
  
  
• Overview of Accountability  (PDF; 164KB; 5pp.)
  
  
• Parent Guide to California's APR System  (PDF; 70KB; 2pp.)
  
  
  • Available Translations of the Parent Guide to California's APR System
    
    
• Glossary
  
  
• Calculation Spreadsheets Base and Growth  (XLS; 204KB; 10pp.)
  
  
• Letter: Changes to the 2008 Base API
  

Previous API Documentation

• 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

Accountability Research

• Data Analysis and Statistical Properties Reports

Related Sites

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