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.
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.
Parents, educators, officials offer legislators ideas for improving education.
Consultants were hired by the state to offer guidance for turning around unaccredited school districts.
Most school districts earn high marks on review; a few are at risk of downgrade in state accreditation.
Missouri now gives annual performance ratings for public schools. But is it a tool parents want?
