Rating

Public School Quality

Scale56-100

Higher values are better.

About This Ranking

Goal

Highlight places with strong public-school academic achievement, meaningful grade-to-grade growth, and solid four-year graduation outcomes, while keeping achievement as the primary signal.

Sources

Data behind the rating

3 sources

Stanford Education Data Archive (SEDA 2025.1) evidence ladder

Version 2025.1; pooled 2022-2025 evidence preferred, 2009-2019 explicitly historical

Data: All-student achievement and growth evidence at administrative-district, school, and state resolution. Public School Quality selects the highest available same-period tier and records the tier, resolution, proxy method, and uncertainty in every score receipt.
What it tells us: Preserves a nationwide school-quality signal while distinguishing direct district evidence from school aggregation, state-anchored estimation, and low-resolution statewide estimation. A fallback is less geographically specific than direct district evidence and is not an attendance-zone rating.

U.S. Education Department Ed Data Express

2022-23 four-year adjusted-cohort graduation rate

Data: Official EDFacts all-student four-year adjusted-cohort graduation rate and cohort count for the exact current secondary or unified district, used only when the disclosure and cohort pass the evidence gates.
What it tells us: Adds a modest high-school completion outcome. The direct score is blended toward a held-out calibrated academic prediction according to cohort size, privacy-interval precision, and source currentness.

NCES EDGE School Districts - Current

2024-2025 school-district boundaries

Data: School-year 2024-2025 administrative, elementary, and unified boundaries and seven-digit district identifiers already approved by both subject scores and required to match exactly.
What it tells us: Identifies the one district boundary containing the named Census place's representative point; it is not an attendance zone, exact place-boundary overlay, or guarantee of school assignment.

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