Three Porterville area schools have made the Educational Results Partnership's 2025 Honor Roll as California's top performing schools.
Harmony Magnet Academy and Santa Fe Elementary School in the Porterville Unified School District and Hope Elementary School were all named to the Honor Roll.
This is the 11th year ERP has issued the Honor Roll list, which recognizes top public schools, school districts and charter schools in California that have outperformed their peers in closing achievement gaps, particularly among higher-poverty and historically disadvantaged student populations.
This year 1,834 schools in California made the Honor Roll. This is approximately 21 percent of all eligible schools in the state. Results are based on data of student outcomes on the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress, CAASPP, for the 2023-2025 school years. Schools were selected,based on the California Honor Roll Methodology.
To make the Honor Roll, a school or district must have comprehensively performed above the mean (at least 80 percent of the time for all cohorts of students served and for all grade levels served.
Data made publicly available by the California Department of Education was used to conduct the analysis. The methodology applies to peer groups of schools and districts so similar schools and districts are compared to each other. Peer groups for schools were based on public, locally funded charter, and directly funded charter. Peer groups for districts were based on elementary, high school and unified. Schools and districts were further split into two categories:
STAR Schools and Districts: Schools and districts with greater than, or equal to, 33 percent of students designated as socioeconomically disadvantaged (high poverty).
Scholar Schools and Districts: Schools and districts with fewer than 33 percent of students designated as socioeconomically disadvantaged (low poverty).
To be eligible for the Honor Roll, a minimum population of 100 students for schools and 500 students for districts was required. Juvenile Court Schools, Continuation Schools, and Home and Hospital schools were not eligible.
The number of Honor Roll schools and districts in each category wasn't predetermined; the results of the model determined the number.
The California Honor Roll is in collaboration with 28 Chambers of Commerce throughout the state including the California Chamber of Commerce’s Foundation for Commerce and Education, California Black Chamber of Commerce, California Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, CalAsian Chamber of Commerce,
San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, Sacramento Chamber of Commerce, San Joaquin A+, and other business leaders. For more information visit the ERP website at www.edresults.org or the Campaign website at edcampaign.org.
The Honor Roll acknowledges where students are learning the fundamental skills that employers value. It also looks at the best practices for accelerating student learning in the critical areas of reading, writing and math.
This effort is part of a national campaign to engage business leaders in recognizing successful schools and educational systems that are preparing students with the fundamental skills needed to be successful in the workforce and in life. The Honor Roll is the only school recognition program presented in partnership with business leaders and based solely on objective student achievement data. The goal is to find and highlight successful schools and encourage collaboration among educators on best practices for raising student achievement.