GARDEN GROVE, Calif. ― Fourteen Garden Grove Unified School District schools have earned a spot on the prestigious statewide honor roll of academic awards from California Business for Education Excellence (CBEE).
This recognition from California’s business community is given to schools demonstrating consistently high levels of achievement, having made significant progress toward closing student performance gaps, and ― for high schools ― exceptional performance on measures of college readiness.
The Honor Roll is comprised of the “Star Schools” and “Scholar Schools” awards. CBEE Star Schools are those with significant populations of socio-economically disadvantaged students that have shown meaningful growth in grade-level proficiency over time. CBEE Scholar Schools are schools that are showing high levels of academic achievement, but do not have a significant socio-economically disadvantaged student population. In a new category this year, CBEE is also recognizing schools that have both high percentages of low-income students and high levels of achievement in math and science with the new Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Honor Roll.
The GGUSD Honor Roll Star Schools are Allen, Anthony, Excelsior, Hazard, Marshall, Paine, Peters, Simmons, and Sunnyside elementary schools, and La Quinta High School. Scholar Schools in the district are Barker and Patton elementary schools, Bell Intermediate School, and Pacifica High School. Additional recognition for the STEM Honor Roll was given to Allen and Excelsior schools.
“We must change the conversation in public education from being about failure to one that focuses on replicating the success of schools like those on the Honor Roll,” said Greg Jones, CBEE chairman. “These schools are not making excuses about their performance and are overcoming challenges and obstacles to improvement every day. Our goal is to highlight their results so they can be copied in other places.”
The complete list of honor roll schools can be found at www.cbee.org.
