The Post-Dispatch interactive guide to schools
For the third year, Missouri is using a system for rating schools districts that offers deeper scrutiny of performance with a 100-percentage point scale for rating school districts. The Post-Dispatch has made it easier to comb though that data — including the latest standardized exams — with a number of interactive tools. We've also teamed up with the City Parents League of St. Louis to offer an even deeper look at schools in the city of St. Louis —including traditional, charter and magnet schools.
Compare performance for every public school in the state.
The latest results from the spring 2015 Missouri Assessment Program tests are in, and we crunched the numbers to see which public high schools…
Starting in third grade, elementary school students each spring take Missouri Assessment Program, or MAP tests. All students in grades 3-8 in …
See performance for every school district on 2015 exams that are now aligned with the Common Core.
Zero in on performance for every school district and individual school in the state, with performance data from five years and four subjects.
See how 55 school districts in the region stack up to the state's new percentage scale.
Explore the STL City Schools Guide, a tool for comparing schools in St. Louis produced by the nonprofit City Parents League of St. Louis.
Compare individual schools head-to-head with an interactive tool that plots out test data.
Compare entire school districts head-to-head with an interactive tool that plots out test data.
97 percent of districts rate well, but a few risk loss of state accreditation
Explore neighborhoods, cities and counties in the region to find the highest performing schools.
A Post-Dispatch analysis in May 2014 looks at the connection between poverty and performance on Missouri standardized exams.
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District has been earning accolades for prior improvement.
Normandy, Riverview Gardens and St. Louis Public Schools must show progress to stem or prevent the flow of transfer students.
Successes may offer a road map to solving problems that have led 2,600 students to transfer from Normandy and Riverview Gardens schools.
