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Another reason to buy a home in Dana Point: RH Dana Elementary School Earns Awards
When it comes to your Dana Point real estate investments, families always have to do their homework when it comes to the schools. Finding the right home for you and your family is always a hard task, and one important factor that you should always consider is the school district that your home will belong to, and the assigned public school your kids will be attending if you decide to enroll them in public education.
Well, here''s some news for the Dana Point area regarding this matter, RH Dana not only was rated 1 in the Disctrict by the OCRegister, but won the very important National Blue Ribbon award.
Jan 17, 2011:
R.H. Dana Elementary School was rated No. 1 in the Capistrano Unified School District and received its second consecutive gold-medal ranking in The Orange County Register''s annual evaluation of the county''s public elementary schools.
The Register evaluated 383 public elementary schools in Orange County, including 37 in Capistrano Unified. It honored 27 schools with gold medals, 63 with silver and 56 with bronze, based on standardized test scores, track records of academic excellence, steady improvement or sudden renaissance.
Here''s how this school in Dana Point fared:
R.H. DANA ELEMENTARY
Medal: gold
District rank: 1 (up from 4 last year)
County rank: 23 (up from 44 last year)
This school also had recently received the National Blue Ribbon School Award. The distinction was awarded to 304 schools nationwide this year. Two local schools received the distinction: R.H. Dana Elementary in Dana Point and Capistrano Valley Christian Schools in San Juan Capistrano.
According to the Department of Education news release, the award honors public and private elementary, middle and high schools whose students achieve at very high levels or have made significant progress and helped close gaps in achievement especially among disadvantaged and minority students. Each year since 1982, the U.S. Department of Education has sought out schools where students attain and maintain high academic goals, including those that beat the odds. Awards are granted based on one of two criteria: 1) Schools whose students, regardless of backgrounds, are high performing. These are schools ranked among the state’s highest performing schools as measured by their performance on state assessments or in the case of private schools, that score at the highest performance level on tests referenced by national norms in at least the most recent year tested; and 2) Schools with at least 40 percent of their students from disadvantaged backgrounds that improve student performance to high levels as measured by the school’s performance on state assessments or nationally-normed tests.
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