This is a sampling of The Education Report, Katy Murphy's Oakland schools blog. Read more atwww.ibabuzz.com/education. Follow her at Twitter.com/katymurphy.

Oct. 5: Today I finally had a chance to look at state-level test score data, something I've been meaning to do since the Academic Performance Index scores were released last month.

Five of Oakland's schools are up in the top 100 -- roughly 1 percent of all public schools in California -- when sorted by API: the three American Indian Model charter schools, and Montclair and Hillcrest elementary schools.

The American Indian Public Charter School in East Oakland's Laurel District was the highest-performing middle school in the state, with an API of 988. (Not including schools with K-8 or 6-12 grade configurations, whose middle school scores aren't broken out here.)

Only nine schools in the top 100 educate a "significant" number of low-income students, as defined by No Child Left