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Middle schools' API scores go up

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From: Oakland Tribune
Date: 20051028
Author:Katy Murphy and Jill Tucker, STAFF WRITERS

HAYWARD -- Middle school might not be an easy time for kids -- or their teachers, who have just two years to work with them before the beginning of high school.

But Hayward's five middle schools -- Bret Harte, Chavez, King, Ochoa and Winton -- showed improvement in their high-stakes test scores. And a report released Thursday showed that all of the major ethnic and socioeconomic "subgroups" of students at each of those schools improved significantly.

At King Middle School, which improved by 52 points overall on the 800-point Academic Performance Index scale, the Latino students improved by ...

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