Greater Orange News Service

VILLA PARK H.S. and EL MODENA H.S. named to
NEWSWEEK’s List of America’s Best High Schools

Orange Unified’s Villa Park and El Modena High Schools were two of 20 Orange County High Schools named to Newsweek Magazine’s annual List of America’s Best High Schools. The list includes a total of 1139 high schools from across the nation. Newsweek uses a formula of dividing the number of graduating seniors by the number of Advanced Placement (AP) and/or International Baccalaureate (IB) tests taken at a school. To make the Newsweek list, the schools measured must have an index of at least 1.000 and are in the top 5% of public schools. Villa Park High School is number 557 on this year’s list and El Modena H.S. is number 1073. Also on the list: Tustin H.S. in Tustin Unified was 756; and Foothill H.S., Santa Ana was 996.

Other Orange County high schools include: Mission Viejo H.S., Mission Viejo; San Clemente H.S., San Clemente; Esperanza H.S., Anaheim; University H.S. and Northridge H.S., Irvine; Troy H.S., Fullerton; Tesoro H.S., Ranch Santa Margarita; Ocean View H.S., Huntington Beach; Dana Hills H.S., Dana Point; Capistrano Valley H.S., San Juan Capistrano; Valencia H.S., Palcentia; Newport Harbor H.S., Newport Beach; Aliso Niguel H.S., Aliso Viejo; Los Alamitos H.S., Los Alamitos; Garden Grove H.S. and Bolsa Grande H.S.; Garden Grove.
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Villa Park’s Pauly gets GOP Honor
Deborah Pauly is featured as Volunteer of the Month on the Orange County Republican website. The site lauds long time politically active Pauly as a dedicated volunteer and for her organizational skills. The site states:
“Deborah organized an entire Assembly District by recruiting a good percentage of City Chairmen and Neighborhood Representatives. In addition, she was an officer in a local Republican club, and founded a Community Service Foundation”
CLICK ON: http://www.ocgop.org/

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