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Chino Valley School District API Scores High!

The Chino Valley School District is one of the best in the Inland Empire and a big draw for home buyers in Chino and Chino Hills. Sending your child to a top rated school is just plain good parenting! The API score is the Academic Performance Index based on state tests taken every Spring. The numeric index ranges from the lowest at 200 to the highest at 1,000. The statewide target is 800.

Congratulations to Cortez, Gird, Rhodes, El Rancho, Dickey, Liberty, Dickson, Canyon Hills, Townsend, Los Serranos and Walnut schools for their substantial increase in scores!

Here are the results of this year's testing and the corresponding change in API scores:

2008 2007 Change
Elementary:
Borba 775 785 -10
Briggs 826 849 -23
Butterfield Ranch 897 903 -6
Cattle 844 841 3
Chaparral 796 799 -3
Cortez 809 766 43
Country Springs 928 921 7
Dickey 734 702 32
Dickson 736 713 23
Eagle Canyon 875 876 -1
El Rancho 742 710 32
Gird 757 717 40
Glenmeade 845 839 6
Hidden Trails 901 900 1
Liberty 883 858 25
Litel 869 888 -19
Los Serranos 813 796 17
Marshall 747 768 -21
Newman 766 772 -6
Oak Ridge 920 925 -5
Rhodes 946 910 36
Rolling Ridge 908 912 -4
Walnut 763 749 14
Wickman 897 894 3
Junior High:
Canyon Hills 881 859 22
Magnolia 751 753 -2
Ramona 710 727 -17
Townsend 838 820 18
Woodcrest 743 734 9
High School:
Ayala 792 799 -7
Chino 618 662 -44
Chino Hills 770 779 -9
Don Lugo 672 670 2
Alternative School:
Boys Republic 592 unk 0
Buena Vista 445 469 -24
Chino Valley Learning 351 402 -51

Chino Hills on CQ Press Safest Cities List

CQ Press, a reference and texbook publishing company has listed Chino Hills as the 16th safest city in the United States on the list of cities with a population of 75,000 or more. CQ Press is a division of Congressional Quarterly, Inc. and located in Washington DC. Statistics were acquired from 2006 crime data released from the FBI.

Other So. California cities rankings...Mission Viejo ranked number one, Thousand Oaks, number 7, Lake Forest number 10 and Irvine number 11.

Chino Hills, CA Homes Sales Statistics

Click below for the summary of sales Report in Chino Hills for the first quarter of 2008.

Chino Hills Homes Sales for Quarter 1, 2008

Per Dataquick, 40 resale homes, new homes and condos sold in Chino Hills in the month of March, 2008 with a median price of $497,000 compared to March of 2007's median price of $585,000 indicating a 15.4% median price decrease from last year.