Look Up Your School District’s Test Scores
The New York Times • • general
Key Points:
- The test score data for third- through eighth-graders in traditional public school districts is sourced from the Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford.
- A report on this data was released on May 13 by the Education Scorecard, a collaboration between Stanford, Harvard, and Dartmouth researchers.
- Researchers linked state test results with the National Assessment of Educational Progress to enable cross-state comparisons, excluding states with opt-outs, recent test updates, or missing data.
- Districts were matched within states based on size, demographics, and community type (urban, suburban, rural) for comparative analysis.
- For medium and large districts lacking 2015 data, an average of 2014 and 2016 scores was used as a baseline in the analysis.