His committee, the Venezuelan Association of California, has already shipped eight tons of clothing canned goods and medicine to the flood victims. The API is based on the SAT 9 scores from last spring. Each test component is given a percentage weight and through a formula the API is totaled. The top score is 1000. 800 is exemplary, while a score of 500 is considered average.
Schools use the API to create a goal for academic progress for the next year.
Governor Davis has established 800 as the target for an exemplary school. Since it is difficult for any school to make that kind of improvement, he has established a system of yearly target growth goals. Withrow's API is 777, just under the level established for an exemplary school. Since our score is so high, our target growth goal is only one. Next year we need to have an API score of 778 to meet our goal.