April 8, 2005

ESD NEWS BRIEFS

ESD elementary schools honor second trimester students with 4.0 GPAs

Congratulations to the following elementary school students in the Evergreen School District who earned 4.0 grade point averages.

Cadwallader Elementary School
Grade 4 – Gurpreet Bhoot, Yesenia Martinez and Peter Tran.
Grade 5 – Nancy Tang.
Grade 6 – Kevin Dinh, Judy Kim, Scott Tang, Alex Thoi and Don Truong.

Cedar Grove Elementary School
Grade 4 – Christian Calderon, Naomi Campbell, Meggie Collins, Kayla Long,Alana Pronge, Shyamal Sheth, Jonathan Han, Kevin Mahany, Tam Nguyen, Kirpanidh Rai, Nicki Sordello, Andrea Huerta, Jolene Nguyen, Ralph Orteza, Patrick Tran;
Grade 5 – Kyle Alipio, Naushaba Khan, Kimberly Lam, Shanelle Nebre, Henry Nguyen, Shannon Nguyen, Stacey Nguyen, Samuel Scaglione, Donna Tang, Lisa Tran, Michelle Tran, Corina Victoria;
Grade 6 – Kristoffer Alquiza, Kevin Brasil, Prabhdeep Kuhnkkuhn and Tina Wong.

Carolyn Clark Elementary School
Grade 4 – Sabreen Bains, Kirsten Blasco, Timothy Castillo, Brian Cendana, Yvonne Chau, Louis Chen, Natalie Dang, Rameen Dhindsa, Christopher Dinh, Cathy Lynn Gonzales, Peter Hoang, Kevin Ip, Brian Kim, Tiffany Lee, Brandon Lee, Tracey Luong, Shyam Mervana, Sarah Munoz, Minh Nguyen-Phuc, Crystal Pan, Emily Paramo, Zayd Parekh, Angela Pham, Samir Rahman, Shruit Rajagopal, Anjuli Taunk, Timmy Wagner, Scottie Wan, Stephanie Wong;
Grade 5 – Pratir Doshi, Bianca Garcia, Stacey Huang, Brian Huynh, Rahul Kuchibhatla, Alexander Lee, Caitlyn Ma, Alan Nguyen, Avi Patel, Komal Sharma, Jerik Straetker, Ritu Parekh, Wendy Qiu, Uma Sakhalkar, Kelly Shi, Ashley Tran, Katherine Tran, Amy Yu, Junwei Yu, George Zhang;
Grade 6 – Alex Bui, Andre Chapman, Chester Chu, Thydan Do, Prasiddha Halder, Pauline Huyn, Christina Koral, Iuna Li, Timothy Lo, Kim Ly, Spencer March, Maitree Mervana, Sam Munoz, Braeland Nagel, Ann Nguyen, Alice Nguyen, Lyndsey Paramo, Bryant Pong, Meghana Seshadri, Roopali Sharma, Rhed Shi, Brendan Tran, Dan Tran and James Zou.

Dove Hill Elementary School
Grade 4 – Henry Nguyen; Grade 5 – Chelsea Baraza, Brandon Doan, Nancy Ho, Leslie Legacion, Sapna Nayyar, Christine Nguyen, Bianca Pham, Emily Quan, Nicole Tabancay, Jennifer Wong;
Grade 6 – Christine Chavez, Monorom Chim, Vincent Diep, Elizabeth Huynh, Satinder Kaur, Davinder Khaira, Pabla Khushreer, Darren Ngo, Susan Nguyen, Angelica Rodriguez, Tylyn Santos, Crystal Vo, Kevin Wong and Sarah Wong.

Evergreen Elementary School
Grade 4 - Ridhi Arun, Harshika Chowdhary, Raksha Dutt, Christie Ho, Ariel Hsing, Yizhe Liu, Andrew Nguyen, Cynthia Nguyen, Ashley Poelman, Vijeetha Sridhar, Dennis Sauao, Anthony Tran, Katie Trieu, Lannie Trieu, Kathleen Tubera;
Grade 5 – Rachel Alfaro, Phuc Hoang, Nikhil Kalluri, Andrew Le, Evie Lee, Victor Loi, Brandon Nguyen;
Grade 6 – Christopher Ancheta, Nancy Chen, Amy Nguyen, Evie Lee and Samah Pirzada.

Holly Oak Elementary School
Grade 4 – Min-Tuan Duong, Jennifer Lao, Tiffany On, Charlie Nguyen, David Nguyen, Tony Nguyen, Marissa Reed;
Grade 5 – Korrissa Aguilar, Jacob Benitez, Andrew Dauenhauer, Monserrat Delgadillo, Natalie Halley, Michelle Huynh, Dolly Pham;
Grade 6 – Steven Hernandez, Margaret Ho, David Huynh, Parul Jandir, Bonnie Liang, Sharon Ly, Tracy Mendoza, Kimberly Nguyen,Tony Pham, Angeline Tran, Thuytien Van and Nabila Zaidi.

Laurelwood Elementary School
Grade 4 – Ariana Acaccia, Joelle Borden, Christian Burnias, Trevor Delrosario, Aman Haile, Michaella Lee, Kelsey McClung, Esther Melton, May Ngo, Daniel Stahlnecker, Jillian Tarr;
Grade 5 – Bob Chong, Chaddy Georges, Alexia Green, Christopher Luong, Quang Ngo, Nicholas Sohm, Amanda Tun, Jacob Wolfe;
Grade 6 – Jose Avalos, Mikaela Burton, Jason Cruz, Martin Dowdy, Lynn Grigsby, Carter Johnson, Erik Leaf, Jessica Martinez, Alvin Nguyen, Nicolete Noto, Christian Palacios, Brandon Shin, Danae Stahlnecker, Kevin Tsukamoto, David Vasquez and Lindsey Wong.

Matsumoto Elementary School
Grade 4 – Sarah Abalos, Raviteja Arikati, Julie Cheng, Angela Cortese, Marvinne Flora, Avinaash Korrapati, Britnney Nguy, Mia Nguyen, Mamata Polisetty, Arinee Rahman, Anisha Sunkerneni, Linyan Tian, Chi-Lan Tran, Tyler Valdez, Sumeet Vij, Jenna Wetzel;
Grade 5 – Anthony Banuelos, Meghana Bhimarao, Christiane Cabreros, Katelyn Chen, Anay Dattawadkar, Anay Deshmukh, Rohan Kapre, Claire Karlsson, Bhargavi Karumuri, Winston Kim, Perry Leong, Austin Lofink, May Lu, Christopher Ma, Graham Nelson, Khang Nguyen, Steven Nguyen, Anna Nidhary, Ali Palla Ashley Park, Chandni Patel, Lauren Principi, Yang Qu, Timothy Quach, Rohit Reddy, Tara Rodriguez, Lauren Ruffin, Vincent Sanchez, Greeshma Sanchula, Pravleen Sidhu, David Tan, Andre Teuthorn, Victoria Vu, Sophia Vu, Emily Wang, Albert Wong, Cassandra Wong;
Grade 6 – Hannah Abalos, Neda Bazofti, Lauren Chang, Helen Chen, Becky Chien, Abhijith Chitlur, Irene Chou, Rachel Foo, Kelsey Gallagher, Medha Huang, Kristine Manohar, Tricia Oveyssi, Parisa Pang, Swetha Setty, Navroop Tran, Stephanie Tsai, Kevin Tumangan, Mariko Voleti, Angeline Wetzel and Martin Wong.

Millbrook Elementary School
Grade 4 – Julie Huang, Sarah Lau, Crystal Llanes, Lauren Mora, Christina Nguyen, Jessica Nguyen, Shubhu Sekhon, Mark Ta, Michelle Ta, Melissa Tow, Nathan Wong; Grade 5 – Sydnie Bui, Samantha Garcia, Julina Ly, Jennifer Maung, Ba Doi Phan, Tyler Phan, Nicole Thanh, Andrew Tran, Paul Vuong, Phoebe Wang;
Grade 6 – JoAnne Ancheta, Andrea DeLuca, Daniel DeMayo, Emmanuel Espinoza, Corey Goldsmith, Kelby Hertanu, Stephanie Le, Monica Luong, James Luu, William Maung, Kimberly Ngo, Cathy Nguyen, Jessica Phan, Jaelien Pinheiro, Claire Satterwhite, Eshita Shah, Shivam Singal, Charles To, Christopher Torrecampo, Justin Tran, Sean Traspe, Richard Truong and Chao-Chun Yang.

Montgomery Elementary School
Grade 4 – Zhanelle Buccat, Joel Demarest, Vivian Do, Brandon Guerrero, Daniel Nguyen, Kimberly Nguyen, Barbie Rom, Amhad Taylor, Larry Yi;
Grade 5 – Jennalyn Fong, Cristina Garcia, Elyza Gravidez, Brian Ha, Marc Jimenez, Sherriana Leang, Claire Pham, Truong Pham, Nancy Phan, Kristi Tran, Cynthia Truong; Grade 6 – Joey Albano, Nicole Cabrera, Veronica Gaska, Nikki Le, Anne Marie Manzano, Ida Rodin and Alvin Thach.

Norwood Creek Elementary School
Grade 4 – Karen Gee,Vivian Ngo, Anna Pham, Jenny Trinh, Tiffany Thang;
Grade 5 – Jasjeet Dhanota , Christina Doan, Alan Nguyen, Bonnie Nguyen, Eric Nguyen, Zachary Tran, Calvin Wong;
Grade 6 – Jessica Su, Ashley Tran, Paige Aiono, Vivian Dao, Nancy Nan, Andy Ngo and Kathleen Truong.

Silver Oak Elementary School
Grade 4 – Michael Abood, Allison Chan, Tiffany Chanroo, Gareth Chen, Victoria Johnston, Michelle La, Gregory Lee, Loren Sexton, Rohan Shankar, Tyler Tanaka, Laura Taylor, Madeline Taylor, Michelle Wang, Kalmina Wu;
Grade 5 – Sami Arminger, Ariq Chowdhury, Dolly Deep, Christina Ja, Zach Jagla, Vivian Li, Mariella Manalac, Julia McDaniel, Marilyn Nguyen, James Wei, Eddie Zhang.
Grade 6 – Amal Asghar, Saeah Benton, Amanda Chen, Cynthia Chiu, Audrey Chou, Nicole Cuenca, Shivani Deshmukh, Maxime Desroches, Jennifer Espinoza, Daniel Garcia, Vivek Iyer, Katherine Ja, Alyssa Jepsky, Ashtyn Ka, Edward Kim, Sravani Kondapavulur, Katherine Le, Janey Lee, Austin Lenz, Melissa Ling, Catherine Mace, Darien Manalac, Kelsey Marcos, Arazue Moghtaderi-Zaeh, Kevin Nguyen, Tanya Padgaonkar, Pauline Pham, Kelsey Rieger, Jordan Rowley, Amanda Schmitt, Marcus Sera, Jordan Seto, Neerav Sharma, Jackson Souza, Lauren Speers, Andrea Stickel, Michelle Sung, Jacquelyn Tran, Brian Wang, Amy Wong, June Yoo, Kevin Yoshioka, Brent Younger and Annie Zaccarine.

James F. Smith Elementary School
Grade 4 – Tausif Ahmed, Denise Bui, Jacqueline Bui, Sylvie Dobrota, Felicia Fang, Diana Le, Philippe Langlois, Matthew Lin, Vidush Mukund, Dylan Naroff, Kalvyn Ngo, Steven Nguyen, Gustav Olofsson, Christina Pham, Abhijit Puranam, Andrea Rodriguez, Alex Sosa, Samantha Swenor, Davina Thai, Lexing Tong, Bryan Tran, Randall Tran, Ann Truong, Shreya Vemuri, Whitney Vien, Christine Wang;
Grade 5 – Brian Do, Rachel Do, Vivian Hsu, Madeline Naroff, Emma Neil;
Grade 6 – Bryan Chiang, Peter Gao, Michael Lawson, Sarah Mahdavi, Jacob Mieso, Myvy Ngo, Michelle Nguyen, Natalie Nguyen, Nhi Nguyen, Andrew Quan, Vivian Thorbecke and Brandon Tran.

Katherine R. Smith Elementary School
Grade 4 – Justin Campos, My Linh Do, Francisco Gomez, Duong Luu, Annalisa Mendoza, Alejandro Salas;
Grade 5 – Huy Do, Jamie Duran, Jodie Gee, Rabbi Khanna, Christine Nguyen, Amy Tran;
Grade 6 – Sally Chau, Diana Nguyen, Jesse Samson, Vega Tang and Meilani Villamor.

O.B. Whaley Elementary School
Grade 4 – Yessika Halim, Diana Nguyen, Vivian Phan, Michael Tran, Michelle Tran, Thea Tuliao;
Grade 5 – Jennifer Brooks, Aly Khater, Andy Le, Mary Nguyen, Mi Nguyen, Cymoril Sonico and Ereka Tinsley.

Source: Evergreen School District. If a name is misspelled or missing, please contact the district directly with your concern.

New 2004 API Base scores released in March
The Academic Performance Index is the centerpiece of the statewide accountability system in California public education. The Public Schools Accountability Act requires that the California Department of Education annually calculate
APIs for California public schools and publish school rankings based on these APIs.

Each annual API reporting cycle includes two reports: a base report, which appears in March and establishes a new calibrated base for comparison, and a growth report, which appears in October and calculates comparable improvement. These reports are based on APIs calculated in the same way with the same indicators, but using test results from two different years. For example, the 2005 scores will use 2004 and 2005 data.

The new 2004 API Base, released in March, summarizes the performance of a school district or a school on the 2004 Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) program, California High School Exit Exam (CAHSEE) and California Alternative Performance Assessment (CAPA).

The API is on a scale of 200 to 1000. It is calculated from the performance of individual pupils on the:

- California Science Standards Test in fifth grade—new this year

- California Achievement Tests, 6th Edition Survey (CAT/6 Survey) in third and seventh grade—new this year

- California History-Social Science Standards Test in eighth, tenth and eleventh grades—new this year

- California Alternate Performance Assessment (CAPA) in English-language arts (ELA) and mathematics for students
with the most severe cognitive disabilities for second to eleventh grade students

- California English-Language Arts and Mathematics Standards Test (CST in ELA and mathematics) – grades two
through eleven.

- California High School Exit Examination in tenth grade

2004 Statewide Rank
Most schools that receive APIs are ranked by school type: elementary, middle and high school. A rank of 10 is the highest and 1 is the lowest. Each decile in each school type contains 10 percent of all schools of that type.

2004 Similar Schools Rank
Most schools with at least 100 students with test results included in the API are also ranked in deciles by school type when compared to schools with similar characteristics.

The PSAA specifies these characteristics to include a student’s mobility, ethnicity and socioeconomic status; the percentage of teachers who are fully credentialed or who hold emergency credentials; the percentage of students who are English-language learners; average class size per grade level; and whether the schools operate multi-track year-round educational programs.

2004-05 Growth Target
A school’s growth target is calculated by taking five percent of the distance between a school’s 2004 API Base and the statewide performance target of 800. Any school with an API of 800 or more must maintain an API of at least 800 and is not assigned a growth target or new API target. School districts do not receive growth targets.

2005 API Target
The 2005 API target is the sum of the 2004 API Base and the growth target, except for schools with a 2004 API Base of 800 or more. Schools with an API of 800 or more are expected to maintain a score of 800 or more.

The State Board of Education also adopted a new method for calculating the API. The new method is described in the 2004 Academic Performance Index Base Information Guide and the 2004 Academic Performance Index Base Technical Information available on the CDE Web site at: http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/ac/ap/.

Final reminder! Tickets on sale until April 30

JFS golf tournament, dinner auction on May 16

The James Franklin Smith Elementary School PTA is holding its fourth annual Books On Par fundraiser on May 16 at the Silver Creek Valley Country Club. This community event will raise money for the school library, technological resources and artistic programs for the students.

Enjoy an 18-hole round of tournament golf, including a catered lunch by Megabyte Pizza, and/or head into the evening with a silent auction held during the complimentary wine and hors d’oeuvres reception. Next is a sit-down dinner in the Silver Creek Country Club’s Yerba Buena Room, followed by a live auction of the magnificent classroom art pieces, framed and ready for your home or office.

You may purchase tickets just for the golf event, just for the dinner/auction or together at a discount until April 30 by downloading the registration form from: http://eesd.org/jfs/pta/bop. Business leaders interested in sponsoring a golf hole for Books On Par should contact Leslie Shannon at leslie_ferguson@hotmail.com.