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USA State-by-State Public School Rankings are based on data from the Nation's Report Card provided by U.S. Department of Education. There are two sets of rankings:

• Standard Rankings are based on the following:
  
  • Elementary Schools: Average scale scores in Reading and Mathematics, Grade 4 public schools.
  • Middle Schools: Average scale scores in Reading and Mathematics, Grade 8 public schools.


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• Parents should be careful on how they interpret these results. There are significant variability in school performances in any given state. On the other hand, there are little variability in state-wide averages. So the best performing school in the worse performing state is likely much better than the worse performing school in the best performing state.
• So whatever state you live in, try to find the best school in that state. Don't move to another state simply because it has a higher ranking. It depends very much on which school your child(ren) go(es) to.
• NAEP does not report state-by-state data for 2004. On this site, the 2004 data are interpolated between the 2003 and 2005 data that NAEP reported.
• NAEP does not report state-by-state data for 2006. On this site, the 2006 data are interpolated between the 2005 and 2007 data that NAEP reported.
• High school rankings are not available for USA State-to-State Ranking.
• The term "School" is often used here in place "State". This is because we use the same engine to generate the school rankings and the state-by-state rankings. Also, the Abbr-by-Abbr Rankings are the same as the Standard Rankings.

USA School ratings are available for: 2003  2004  2005  2006  2007  
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