Your school’s rating was never about your child.

Look up any school across 31 states and see how Black students there are actually doing. It is free. It carries no advertising. Nothing here is for sale.

What does a school rating actually measure?

Mostly, who goes there. Enroll advantaged children and the score goes up. Enroll poorer children and it goes down. The rating is real. It is just answering a different question than the one you came with.

You are not browsing schools. You are deciding where your child spends the next six years. That question is narrower: does this school work for a child like mine?

Take Kealing Middle School in Austin.

Seventy-six percent of students at Kealing meet grade level. Nineteen percent of the Black students do. Same building. Same teachers. Same principal. A 56.6-point gap that every rating site in the country reports as a strong school.

Twenty-two Texas schools look like Kealing. And it runs the other way too, which matters more: at 761 Texas schools, Black students outperform their own school’s average. Sixteen percent of every campus with enough Black students to report. Follow a rating and you will be steered away from schools that are serving your child better than most.

Nobody publishes that. So this does.

Where these numbers come from

Every number comes from the agency that published it. TEA in Texas. GOSA in Georgia. The equivalent in twenty-nine other states.

Nothing is modeled. Nothing is estimated. Nothing is projected. When a state reports a figure, this site shows it. When a state hides one, this site leaves it blank instead of guessing.

Each state page names its source, its test, its year, and its exact proficiency standard. Every claim here can be checked against the same public file it came from.

What this cannot tell you

• Do not compare Texas to Georgia. Each state writes its own test and sets its own passing bar. Across state lines you are comparing two tests, not two schools. Compare inside one state.
• The worst schools are hiding. States withhold results for small groups to protect children’s privacy. That is the right call. It also means what you see here is kinder than the truth.
• Some of these schools will not take you. Magnet, charter, alternative and virtual campuses carry a flag. Early college programs and specialized academies often admit by application too, and this site cannot spot all of them yet. Call the district before you fall in love with a school.
• A test score is not a child. It measures one thing on one morning. It cannot tell you whether your daughter will be safe, whether a teacher will learn her name, whether she will want to go on Monday. It is one input. It is the one nobody was handing you.

Who made this

One person, working alone. No funding. No staff. No institution.

What should earn your trust is not a job title. It is the method. Every figure gets pulled from the agency that published it and checked against that agency’s own reporting before it goes live. When a number here turns out to be wrong, it gets corrected and the correction gets said out loud — including the times the corrected number was less dramatic than the one it replaced.

The reason is simpler. An HBCU graduate went looking for this data for his own community, found it scattered across thirty-one state portals in thirty-one different shapes, and decided no parent should have to do that to learn how children like theirs are doing at the school down the street.

Working alone is the point, not an apology. No advertiser to please. No district to avoid offending. No funder deciding what gets published. When the data says something inconvenient, it goes up anyway.

Start with your own school

Look it up. Then look up the district page that lists every campus side by side. Inside a single district, the distance between the best and worst school for Black children runs 60, 80, sometimes 90 points. One administration. One community. One tax base.

Your address should not decide your child’s odds. It does. This makes that visible in ten seconds instead of never.