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Less than One Third of Watsonville High Students Are College Ready

Watsonville schools rank low, but several other area schools are among the top 100 in the state, according to US News and World Report.

Less than 30 percent of Watsonville high school students are ready for college, according to a new report.

Watsonville and Pajaro Valley high schools failed to rank among the Top 100 Best High Schools in California for 2012 as announced Tuesday by US News and World Report magazine.

The schools did not meet California state goals for the Academic Performance Index and fell just below the state average in college readiness, according to the report.

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The clear winner was Pacific Collegiate School in Santa Cruz, listed as the best high school in California. Pacific just missed finishing in the top 10 nationally of Best High Schools, ranked number eleven.

A three-step process determines the news magazine's Best High Schools ranking. The first two steps ensured that the schools serve all of their students well, using performance on state proficiency tests as the benchmarks. For those schools that made it past the first two steps, a third step assessed the degree to which schools prepare students for college-level work.

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California
Ranking

School
College
Readiness
Academic
Performance
1 Pacific Collegiate/Santa Cruz
100.0 935 135 Scotts Valley 39.3 844 330 Harbor High/Santa Cruz 25.5 787 401 Gilroy 21.2 739 — Pajaro Valley/Watsonville
27.3 653 — Soquel 26.6 764 — Watsonville 17.6 660


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