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For 2011, Paulding was ranked #506 of 2169 (top 23.3%) middle schools in California by SchoolDigger.com (  -10 places from 2010). The site determined rank by adding the school's average CST Mathematics score (374.1) with the average CST English-Language Arts Standards score (378.6) to form a combined average score (752.7). The school with the highest combined score (American Indian Public Charter School II with 1010.6) was ranked #1.

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  • The Lucia Mar Unified spends $8,153 per pupil in current expenditures. The district spends 64% on instruction, 32% on support services, 4% on other elementary and secondary expenditures.

Paulding Middle School is located in Arroyo Grande, CA and is one of 3 middle schools in Lucia Mar Unified School District. It is a public school that serves 642 students in grades 7-8.

Paulding Middle School did not make AYP in 2011. Under No Child Left Behind, a school makes Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) if it achieves the minimum levels of improvement determined by the state of California in terms of student performance and other accountability measures.

Paulding Middle School had an API growth score of 837 in 2011. California uses the Academic Performance Index (API) to measure annual school performance and year-to-year improvement. Paulding Middle School's 2011 base score was 834 and the school did meet its 2011 school-wide growth target. A school's Academic Performance Index (API) is a scale that ranges from 200 to 1000 and is calculated from the school's performance in the Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) Program. The state has set 800 as the API target for all schools to meet.

In 2008, Paulding Middle School had 25 students for every full-time equivalent teacher. The California average is 21 students per full-time equivalent teacher.

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Why San Luis Obispo County students are getting suspended and expelled

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Lucia Mar Unified School District Truancy-expulsions-suspensions: Of the district’s 10,772 students last year, 3,126 (29 percent) were considered truant. That number is down from 30 percent in 2004-05. In the past five years 341 students were expelled, and 2,517 students were suspended for violence or drugs.

The top three offenses last year at:

Arroyo Grande High: 100 suspensions were for disrupting school activities or exhibiting willful defiance; 55 for possessing a controlled substance including alcohol; 51 for physically injuring another person. Eighteen of the 44 expulsions were for possessing or selling drugs on campus.

Nipomo High: 128 suspensions were for disrupting school activities or exhibiting willful defiance; 29 for physically injuring another person; 23 for possessing a controlled substance including alcohol. Six of the 18 expulsions were for possessing or selling drugs; one was for hate violence.

Mesa Middle: 35 suspensions were for disrupting school activities or exhibiting willful defiance; 29 for physically injuring another person; 12 for sexual harassment. Three of the 14 expulsions were for possessing or selling drugs.

Judkins Middle: 17 suspensions were for physically injuring another person; 16 for disrupting school activities or exhibiting willful defiance; eight for stealing school property. Two of the five expulsions were for possessing or selling drugs.

Paulding Middle: 23 suspensions were for physically injuring another person; 14 for disrupting school activities or exhibiting willful defiance; five for stealing school property. Three students were expelled for a range of offenses including possessing a knife.

South County Beat: Student poetry kicks off play at A.G. centennial

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Paulding Middle School was named after Clara, who became an advocate for education. The play tells about Clara’s young life on an Indian reservation, where her parents were missionaries. She goes to Mills College in Oakland and eventually takes a teaching job in Arroyo Grande in 1883 at the age of 28.

To get there from Oakland, she must sail down the Pacific Coast to Port Harford (now Port San Luis), then take a train to Arroyo Grande.

Jan Scott wrote and directed the play for the centennial based on the 1947 book, “The Gallant Lady,” by Ruth Paulding. Scott has been curator of the South County Historical Society for eight years and comes from a background of acting, directing and teaching theater.

One of Zac Efron's first performances in front of the camera

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One of Zac Efron's first performances in front of the camera. Finale photo from left front Chris Rinacher, 14, Zac Efron, 14, middle Bryce Blue, 13, back row Anthony Martin, 13, Daniel Johnny Angel, 14, and Brogan D. Sterns, 13. State winners going to world competition in Destination Imagination. They are from Judkins and Paulding Middle schools in the Lucia Mar district. Tribune photo by David Middlecamp, April 10, 2002.

Paulding principal will be Arroyo Grande High's new leader

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Paulding Middle School Principal Tom Butler has been named the next principal of Arroyo Grande High School.

Butler, who has led the middle school since 2009, will start at Arroyo Grande High in the fall, overseeing about 150 employees and 2,200 students. He succeeds Ryan Pinkerton, who has served as the high school’s principal since 2003. Pinkerton has accepted a job with the San Luis Coastal Unified School District as its director of personnel.

Butler’s move was announced Tuesday at a Lucia Mar Unified School District board meeting. He previously worked as principal of Oceano Elementary from 2004 to 2009.

“I am so excited that Tom will be the principal at our largest school,” Lucia Mar Superintendent Jim Hogeboom said in a statement. “He survived a very rigorous application and interview process to be recommended for the position, and we are very lucky to have him on our team.”

Case of principal switching hits district

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It’s more musical chairs for South County principals.

Lucia Mar Unified School District Superintendent Jim Hogeboom announced two more staffing changes this week, bringing to seven the number of schools that will start the fall year with a new principal.

The county’s largest district has 17 schools serving about 10,500 students.

Harloe Elementary Principal Chuck Fiorentino will become the principal of Paulding Middle School, and Jim Empey, currently Paulding’s assistant principal, will lead Harloe Elementary.

Hogeboom said Fiorentino has led Harloe Elementary for three years and held the top spot at Branch and Dana elementary schools.

Empey has worked as assistant principal at Paulding for two years and as an area administrator at Arroyo Grande High School and was a science teacher.

Both moves needed school board approval; the board considered these and some other personnel actions at its meeting Tuesday.

The two announcements follow several other changes that Lucia Mar students will see in the fall, with new principals heading up Dana and Grover Heights elementary schools, Mesa Middle School and Arroyo Grande High. All the principals currently work in the district.

Paulding Middle School Principal Tom Butler will move to Arroyo Grande High; Dana Elementary Principal Paul Jarvis will move to Mesa Middle School; Jeff Martin, who is in his 10th year at Mesa, will lead Grover Heights Elementary.

The Dana Elementary slot will be filled by Branch Elementary Principal Stacey Russell. Daniel Neff, assistant principal at Judkins Middle School, will lead Branch Elementary.

Marianne Foster, a former math teacher and assistant principal, will become Paulding’s assistant principal, and Sarah Butler, a former social studies AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination) teacher at Mesa Middle School, will become Judkins’ assistant principal.

Hogeboom said the number of staffing changes is unusual.

The shifts started when Arroyo Grande High Principal Ryan Pinkerton announced he was taking a job with the San Luis Coastal district, and Grover Heights Principal Jennifer Bowen decided to return to teaching.

Morro Bay High grad Hansen qualifies for U.S. Amateur Championship

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Two area runners medal at USATF meet

Two Central Coast youth runners from Paulding Middle School in Arroyo Grande earned medals this past weekend at the USATF National Junior Olympic Track and Field Championships amid record-setting heat conditions topping 100 degrees.

Competing in the boys 11- to 12-year-old division, Christian Ricketts finished fourth in the 3,000-meter run in 10 minutes, 34 seconds, and was seventh in the 1,500 at 4:57.

On the girls side, Talley Hill placed eighth in the 1,500 with a time of 5:11. Hill also ran in the 3,000, coming in 18th at 12:05.

Top-eight finishers were awarded medals.

Times Press Recorder

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Joanna Jones

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Third place finish for The Backbeats, which includes Joanna. See The Sing-Off (season 2).

NBC's ‘Sing-Off’ may make a star of Pismo resident

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Nipomo High graduate is leading an a cappella group on NBC show

Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly said Mary Meserve-Miller was the artistic director at San Luis Obispo Little Theatre. She was the development director.

Last Monday, Joanna Jones had a difficult choice to make: study for her Shakespeare final or watch herself perform on national television.

The Pismo Beach resident and 2008 Nipomo High School graduate was still fretting over her decision a half hour before she was to appear on NBC’s “The Sing-Off” when local theater director Mary Meserve-Miller called to tell her how proud she was.

“I said, ‘Put the freakin’ book down — you’re going to be on national TV,’ ” said Meserve-Miller, who cast Jones in her 2008 musical “What’d I Say, a Musical Tribute to Ray Charles.” “ ‘You don’t need a final — you need an agent.’ ”

So Jones came up with a compromise: She would go to a friend’s place and watch the opening number, then hit the books.

“But clearly there was no way I could not watch it,” said Jones, a junior studying musical theater at UCLA. “So I went over there, I saw the first number, and I was like, ‘Ok, just kidding — I’m staying.’ ”

It turns out, she was one of more than 8 million to watch the show, which The New York Times recently called “one of the few true ratings surprises of the fall television season.”

Benefiting from the success of Fox television’s hit “Glee,” the show features 10 a cappella groups competing for $100,000 and a contract with Sony Music.

Jones is competing with her group, the Backbeats, composed mostly of students from UCLA and USC.

After advancing during Wednesday’s episode, Jones and the Backbeats will appear on the show again tonight at 8 on local NBC television affiliate KSBY.

While the Backbeats features 10 members, Jones has been the lead singer for the first two episodes. And when the show selected members of the various groups to sing at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, Jones kicked off their rendition of U2’s “Beautiful Day.”

“I’ve watched the Macy’s parade every year since I was a little girl,” said Jones, who’d never been to the East Coast before. “New York is so beautiful, especially at this time, when they decorate everything for Christmas.”

Judging by her heightened profile, Jones, may be traveling a lot more in her future.

“She’s a prodigy,” said Meserve-Miller, who called her “the next Zac Efron,” referring to the Arroyo Grande High School graduate who became a teen heartthrob.

Robyn Metchik, the Nipomo High School drama teacher who taught Efron when she worked at Arroyo Grande High, agreed.

“You’ll see her on Broadway, you’ll see her in films,” said Metchik, who worked with Jones for six years and also teaches at Mesa and Paulding middle schools. “She could be a character actress, she can be a diva, she can be a geek. She has an incredible range — alto to high soprano.”

Even NBC seems to recognize Jones’ talent, giving her much exposure in the Macy’s parade and commercials promoting the show.

“They get her,” local choreographer Suzy Miller said. “She has the ‘It’ factor.”

Childhood start

Jones said her first memory of singing goes back to when she was 4 years old.

“It was a Christmas play at my little Christian school in Santa Maria,” she said. “I had a solo.”

Jones continued to act, sing and dance in school and community theater productions. Despite her talents, Jones has always remained humble, rooting for others to succeed, Meserve-Miller said.

“This is the kind of person you want this to happen to,” she said.

A couple of years ago, Meserve-Miller, then development director at the San Luis Obispo Little Theatre, heard about Jones from her husband, Mike, who’d seen Jones perform in “Aida” at Nipomo High. On his recommendation, Meserve-Miller went on a talent-seeking mission.

“My jaw was on the floor,” she said. “I looked at (Mike) and said, ‘She will be in one of my shows before she goes to Los Angeles.’ ”

In “What’d I Say,” performed at the Clark Center in Arroyo Grande, Jones performed a duet with her father and belted out a stirring Aretha Franklin-style version of “Bridge Over Troubled Waters.”

A few months later, she went on to UCLA, where she got involved with a competitive a cappella group called Awaken.

Meanwhile, USC student Kenton Chen saw the first season of “The Sing-Off” and decided he had to be on the show. So he assembled a group of the best a cappella singers he could find. And after several auditions with “The Sing-Off,” the Backbeats were in.

And suddenly, Jones was on network TV.

“Early in the year, this wasn’t on my radar,” she said.

When asked if this was her big break, she was careful not to get too excited. Yet, it’s hard not to think of the possibilities.

“I’ve always been interested in television and film,” she said.

In the first episode, she belted out a version of Beyonce’s “If I Were a Boy.” This past week, she led the Backbeats through “Breakeven” by Irish band the Script.

She hasn’t had any offers yet — which Jones said is sort of a good thing because she still has the stress of school, plus the show, which concludes with a live finale Dec. 20.

Mum’s the word on whether her group has advanced in the already-taped episodes leading to the final. But the future looks good.

“I hope she does it all,” Miller said. “But I’d love to see her go Broadway.”

With her exposure, she just might. But first Jones will return home to perform for the opening weekend of Meserve-Miller’s musical “Best of the Original Legends Series,” beginning Dec. 31 at the Clark Center.

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