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Castle Rock Named to California Honor Roll of Schools
Castle Rock has been selected as an Honor Roll School by the California Business for Education Excellence Foundation.
Sacramento--California Business for Education Excellence (CBEE) announced that Castle Rock Elementary School in Diamond Bar has been named to the 2009 Honor Roll.
The 2009 Honor Roll includes 1,304 California public elementary, middle and high schools that have been recognized by California business communities for having demonstrated consistent high student academic achievement and have made significant progress toward closing achievement gaps among all their students. The Honor Roll is made up of two different awards. the Star Schools Award (395 schools) and Scholar Schools Award (909 schools). A full list of the Honor Roll schools can be found at www.cbee.org.
"These schools are the bright spots of hope in efforts to raise student academic achievement and close persistent achievement gaps," said Kirk Clark, executive director of CBEE. "By highlighting them, recognizing their achievement and giving them a voice we hope other schools can learn from these proven practices and we can begin to take their success to scale throughout the state."
No other school recognition program in California uses hard data, individual school and student subgroup performance data based on the California Standards Tests and the California High School Exit Exam, to evaluate school academic performance. It's only by looking at the accurate data and evaluating students and schools based on grade-level proficiency of the California standards, that educators, parents and the public can thoroughly understand what is happening in our schools and ensure that schools are on track to get all students to grade-level proficiency.
