There are multiple choices to compare various demographics in the U.S. The first link views the different state profiles for education. It is able to compare the various states to the U.S. by number of schools, students, revenue, types of institutions, gender demographics, libraries, and reading and math scores for 4th and 8th grade. The second link is the NAEP state comparisons for race, gender, percentiles (75th and 25th), and school lunch eligibility. There are also options for either 4th or 8th grade and compares each state to each other and the U.S. national average.
The School district mapping and demographic data link (3rd ) allows comparison between different schools in a district in any state in the country. There are many options for comparison and although many of the districts need much zooming in to see individual school statistics. The final is the Census 2000 school district profiles. This requires a comparison of two separate school districts and shows information of sex and age, total household members, education level, tenure statistics, etc. Overall these sources seem very valuable and the comparisons to other counties seem to add another level of understanding to where a district stands. Although the information may be a little confusing to understand, with further analysis the ideas of where one county needs to improve could be very important.
http://nces.ed.gov/datatools/index.asp?DataToolSectionID=5
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I think this is a very helpful and useful website because it provides various statistics for many different types of information so you are not limited to your search but rather able to search multiple criteria in an organized way without having to search through other websites. I do however, agree that further analysis of where one county or school needs improvement is very important. While statistics do provide valuable information, I think that without outside knowladge such as why a particular statistic is as high or low as it is (in this case where one county needs improvement) than those statistics are numbers and decisions for example of what school to pick for your child shouldn't be based solely on those numbers and statistics without information on why those statistics stand. Websites like these are useful in visually representing comparisons of schools but if looking for a school for your child, without further analysis on where improvement needs to be made in districts than those statistics loose some significance.
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