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 | ||
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.
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.
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