[quote=sdrealtor]A great year and the year my mother was born as well. Great Schools changed their methodology a year or two ago. Our schools had always been 10/10 and now they range from 7 to 9. The same is happening in Carmel valley now also. What I beleive they did was stop comparing schools against each other and start comparing them against schools with similar demographics. The new methodology now rewards schools with lower test scores that outperform their demographics and penalizes high test score schools that have very strong demographics. In essence they are rewarding good teaching over good students as they should.[/quote]
Funny you should mention this. I just noticed that San Marcos schools had dropped to 6/10. The explanation above explains it, as I don’t think SMUSD schools have changed much in the last few years.
