More than 400 schools have been recognized through the California Distinguished Schools Program this year, including 20 schools in the Fresno area.<\/p>\n
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond unveiled the list Tuesday, recognizing 408 middle and high schools for their high performance and efforts to close student achievement gaps.<\/p>\n
\u201cAn excellent public education has the power to transform lives, and I commend the educators and school communities who have dedicated themselves to producing exemplary results,\u201d Thurmond said in a news release.<\/p>\n
To qualify, schools need to have at least 95% participation in statewide assessments and may not have concerning climate indicators, like high suspension or chronic absenteeism rates.<\/p>\n
Here are the schools from Fresno, Madera, Kings and Tulare counties that made the cut:<\/p>\n
Fresno County<\/p>\n
Buchanan High SchoolBaird Middle SchoolDesign Science Middle College High SchoolEdison ComputechEdison High SchoolErma Duncan Polytechnical High SchoolPhillip J Patino School of EntrepreneurshipUniversity High SchoolReedley High SchoolReedley Middle College High SchoolSanger High School<\/p>\n
Kings County<\/p>\n
Sierra Pacific High School<\/p>\n
Madera County<\/p>\n
Liberty High SchoolSherman Thomas STEM Academy<\/p>\n
Tulare County<\/p>\n
Exeter Union High SchoolLindsay Senior High SchoolHarmony Magnet AcademyPorterville Military AcademyUniversity Preparatory High SchoolEl Diamante High School<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 400 schools have been recognized through the California Distinguished Schools Program this year, including 20 schools…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[60754,98208,75463,98212,112,114,113,98209,98210,98211],"class_list":["post-214084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-buchanan-high-school","tag-california-distinguished-schools","tag-edison-high-school","tag-el-diamante-high-school","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-reedley-high-school","tag-sanger-high-school","tag-university-high-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}