How to Read The Chart

Example: Briggs Elementary School

API score for 2008 is 719, on a scale of 200 to 1,000. The statewide goal is 800. Statewide ranking of 3 means Briggs falls in the lower range of schools statewide, based on test scores.

Similar school ranking of 1 means that Briggs is doing as well of better than 1 percent to 10 percent of schools that are like it, based on demographics.

2009 target of 738 is the score Briggs needs to reach in this year's testing.