Hello, drbarlow-ga,
Education Management publishes a list of the top ranking school
districts in the U.S., but their most recent list is available only
for magazine subscribers. A password from the most recent publication
is necessary to access the list online. However, I did find their list
for 1998 at another site, and have also gleaned some information from
their unrestricted publications concerning criteria, etc.
Here is what I have found:
A partial list of the top ranking school districts by Expansion
Management in 1998 can be found in the article “Madison Schools Again
Ranked in Top Ten Nationally” at
http://www.madison.k12.wi.us/cso/news/97-98/expanman.htm
The top ten on the list were:
Libertyville, Illinois
Palo Alto, California
Naperville, Illinois
Downers Grove, Illinois
Birmingham City, Michigan
Clayton, Missouri
Lower Merion, Pennsylvania
Tredyffrin-Easttown, Penn.
Madison, Wisconsin
Westport, Connecticut
The schools are given “education quotients” which “is a combined
score of several measures of educational quality, including graduation
rate, college board scores, pupil-teacher ratios, per-pupil
expenditures and the level of education in a district.”
Education Management uses the following top criteria to rank school
districts:
"A school district's EQ score is composed of three major indices:
the Graduate Outcome, the Resource Index, and the Community Index."
"The Graduate Outcome measures the final output of a district's
schools, and includes the college board results and graduation rates.
It is by far the most heavily weighted factor in our final
calculations because, for employers and parents alike, that's what
school is all about."
"The Resource Index measures a community's financial commitment to
public education and includes such things as teachers' salaries,
student-teacher ratios and per pupil expenditures. While important, it
has a lesser weight in the final calculations because we feel that a
school district should be measured by its results, not by how much
money it spent."
"The Community Index, which measures the economic and educational
background of the adult population, has almost no weight in the final
calculations, but rather is used as a benchmark for site selectors and
other people engaged in evaluating a work force."
"All three indices, as well as the EQ, are calculated on a scale of
50 (lowest) to 150 (highest), with 100 being the midpoint.
For more detailed information explaining the critieria, and
additional consideration for the rankings, read “2000 Expansion
Management Magazine Education Quotient™.” Expansion Management at
http://www.expansionmanagement.com/smo/articleviewer/default.asp?cmd=articledetail&articleid=15403
Type in the temporary password “spring” to read the article.
Unfortunately, you cannot retrieve the list of school rankings without
a subscription to the magazine, and the password inside the
publication.
A list of the best school district rankings by state, (12/2001), can
be found at http://www.expansionmanagement.com/smo/docreserve/docreserve_content/DEC01_EQ.html
The initials in the rankings stand for:
EQ – Education Quotient
GO – Graduation Outcome
CI - Community Index
The home page for Expansion Management is at
http://www.expansionmanagement.com/EMIndex.asp Under the magazine
link, you may also type in various search terms in their publication
archives. I found the links to the articles above by typing in “school
districts.”
Unfortunately, various searches on Google and other search engines
yielded no further results for school districts, specifically. There
was plenty of information on top schools, but “districts”, as you
requested, brought up nothing other than the information above.
I hope this is a good start for you. Let me know if I can be of
further help.
umiat-ga
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