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Elk Grove High Schools Ranked Below Average in College Readiness
Elk Grove and Pleasant Grove are listed among the top 500 high schools in California, according to US News and World Report.
Fewer than 20 percent of seniors at Elk Grove and Pleasant Grove high schools are ready for college, based on AP test scores, according to a report released Tuesday.
Elk Grove High ranked No. 426 among the Best High Schools in California for 2012, as announced Tuesday by US News and World Report magazine. Pleasant Grove placed 479th. Other schools in the Elk Grove Unified School District were not ranked.
A three-step process determines the news magazine's Best High Schools ranking. The first two steps ensured that the schools serve all of their students well, using performance on state proficiency tests as the benchmarks. For those schools that made it past the first two steps, a third step assessed the degree to which schools prepare students for college-level work.
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The clear winner was Pacific Collegiate School in Santa Cruz, listed as the best high school in California. Pacific just missed finishing in the top 10 nationally of Best High Schools, ranked number eleven.
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California
Ranking
College
Readiness
Academic
Performance
1 Pacific Collegiate/Santa Cruz
100.0 935 67 Granite Bay/Roseville
51.6 867 261 Woodcreek/Roseville 29.8 847 291 Roseville 28.1 802 426 Elk Grove
19.8 782 451 Oakmont/Roseville 18.6 823 479 Pleasant Grove/Elk Grove
16.5 849 — Monterey Trail/Elk Grove 6.7 764
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