Distinguished Schools

State's 'distinguished' school honor only seems spotty in O.C.

Column: Carol Varavanich, The Orange County Register Q. I was taken aback by the lack of schools that were titled Distinguished Schools. Irvine Unified has 23 elementary schools, and only eight got it. I also noticed your district that you speak so highly of had no Distinguished Schools and that the big Capistrano Unified had three. Santa Ana then had six. Why do the numbers seem random? Also my child's school has the plaque on their wall but wasn't named on the website or the article written by the paper. Why is that?