What is schoolbenchmarking.com?

Across the country, school performance is often lower than acceptable. For some schools, making improvement has proved an intractable challenge. We know that school improvement teams are working hard. We also know that these teams need additional tools and resources.

Improvement planning involves setting explicit targets, identifying strategies to achieve those targets and allocating resources to implement the improvement strategies. schoolbenchmarking.com provides tools and resources to help complete these tasks.

Our users can find benchmark (or best-in-class) schools that act as models to help school improvement teams to do the following:

  • Set and justify aggressive improvement targets for their schools
  • Seek the programs, strategies and practices necessary to achieve those targets
  • Allocate available resources to implement improvement strategies and achieve their targets

Identification of the best-in-class, or benchmark, performer is prerequisite to any effective and efficient search for best practices. schoolbenchmarking.com ensures that

  • Schools seeking best practices are matched with the highest performing schools with similar demographic characteristics.
  • Investments in research to identify best practices get the highest return on their investment by seeking best practices at schools delivering sustained, best-in-class performance

schoolbenchmarking.com is a service of Prism Decision Systems and Idea Sciences, Inc. We currently provide detailed benchmarking analysis for thousands of elementary, middle and high schools to the New York State and the Arizona State Departments of Education and the Magellan Foundation.

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