2026 Reports

Beyond Test Scores: Tracking School Improvement Initiatives Using Systems-Level Tools

Phan, Lan H.; Kandemir, Erva; Bowers, Alex J.; Saldaña, Christopher; Halverson, Richard

This interactive report serves as an entry point by demonstrating how school leaders and educators can use their systems-level data more effectively to inform improvement interventions that cater to their specific student population and needs. Specifically, we provide a walk-through for three visualizations that included federal data from over 98,000 schools across the U.S. At the end of the report, we provide further resources for educators, including an Equity Opportunity Reader tool piloted in the project that allow schools, districts, and communities to access relevant data across their education systems.