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#1
  • Apple
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  • 2021/08/16 15:23

I am looking for reviews of Torrance Elementary and Hickory Elementary.
Can we trust GreatSchool's Rating ? Does Race Matter ? (Hickory is overwhelmingly Japanese)
Any thoughts, rumors, anything about having a child attend. Please let us know if you know of any.

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#16
  • 2021/08/19 (Thu) 00:25
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Torrance is

Japan!

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#17
  • はいどうぞ!
  • 2021/08/19 (Thu) 00:43
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Incidentally, the school that appears at the top of the California rankings in LAUSD is Roscomare Road Elementary, ranked 14th,
formerly known as Balboa Elementary (formally Balboa Gifted/High Ability Magnet Elementary ) had long been the top ranked school in
LAUSD, but since the principal changed, the ranking has been dropping steadily.

If you want to know how your child's school ranks in California, you can enter the school name
in the Search field.
Of course, you can also search California middle school rankings and High School Rankings.
If you change the number in the "show schools at a time" field at the bottom, up to 100 schools will be displayed on one page.
If you want to see schools by Unified, you can enter the Unified name.
If you are interested in a school, you can click on the name of the school to see the details of that school.

Of course, local residents have priority for popular schools, but this year, even popular schools that normally would not be able to get in have a higher chance of getting in because they are not filled up due to Corona. I think it is a way to change schools to take advantage of this chance to get in even if you cross the border.

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#18
  • Peach
  • 2021/08/19 (Thu) 11:22
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I don't care what rank the school is in, but I'd like to get into a school with a test score above the 90th percentile ~.

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#19
  • はいどうぞ!
  • 2021/08/19 (Thu) 12:05
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#18
I agree. The test score difference between the top 70 is 1%.
Considering that I'm ranked 641st in a school with a score of 90%, the test score is more important than what rank I'm ranked.

# 14
With 1525 Unified in California, Torrance Unified is ranked 220th, which is great. But even within Torrance, it varies from school to school.

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#20
  • 子育ては終わった
  • 2021/08/19 (Thu) 13:33
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Once upon a time, there was a big fuss when it was discovered that a Japanese child who did not speak English well was told to miss school on the day of the National Common Achievement Test. Why do schools care so much about test scores?

In California, education funding has been cut so much from the state budget that teachers have gone on strike.
The rule that if a school's overall test score goes up 5% over the previous year, it gets more money from the state, and if it goes down 5%, it gets less ( within 5% of the previous year, it stays the same ) has made schools jump through hoops.... I heard that. ( Sorry, but this is just what I heard, not verified by myself )
I would like to believe that now they should no longer give recess to students who cannot speak English ・ ・ ・.

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