School
Digger is a national website with public school rankings in grades
K-12 based on yearly test scores supplied by your local State Department of
Education. Test Scores included in the rankings are CRCT Reading, CRCT English
Language Arts, CRCT Math, CRCT, Science and CRCT Social Studies. In addition to
rankings, the site includes school and district boundaries and student/teacher
ratios. http://www.schooldigger.com
Great Schools is a non-profit organization that provides a quick look at
public, public charter and private schools in grades preK-12 in your area. The
ratings are based on test scores and other data including student growth and
college readiness. In addition, the site includes more than one million reviews
from parents, teachers and students sharing information about the
schools. www.greatschools.org
Private
School Review is a national website providing detailed profiles of private
day schools and their surrounding communities. The site evaluates schools
relative to each other and to state-wide private school averages for several
key criteria such as teacher to student ratios. http://www.privateschoolreview.com
The National Center for Educational Stats (NCES) is
the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to
education. http://www.nces.ed.gov
