This PSN story starts off with the nut:
John Muir High School and Altadena Elementary School received the lowest possible ranking on the Academic Performance Index, according to results released Wednesday for the state's main method of measuring how individual schools are performing.
Both Muir and Altadena Elementary received a ranking of 1 on the API, which scores school achievement on a scale of 1 to 10.
Muir actually dropped from 601 in 2006 to 569 in 2007. Eliot Middle School scored among the bottom third in the state. Read the whole sad story.