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SchoolFactors — California schools without the ranking theater

schoolfactors.com ↗ · Civic & Public Life · score 84.0
○Open: public page gives enough substance to understand the site $Paid: pricing, booking, ecommerce, subscription, or paid access is visible ADAds: visible ad load or ad-supported content ✦Pretty: notable design, copy, craft, or presentation ◆Pro: polished, finished-feeling, serious, or operationally mature ◇Niche: specific audience, workflow, or unusually focused use case ◉Human: personal, local, community, civic, handmade, or real-person signal !Suspicious: scammy, spammy, trust theater, finance fog, or credibility concern

An open-data tool for comparing every California public school, district, and county using adjusted and raw measures.

Why it surfaced

SchoolFactors makes a deliberate argument against simplistic school rankings: it shows correlations rather than causes, includes error margins, and warns that small percentile differences may be statistical noise. Its methodology, data sources, GitHub code, and reproducible pipeline make the table unusually inspectable for a public-facing school-data site.

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