PRE-LAUNCH DEMONSTRATION All school and district names, identifiers, results, ranks, counts, and map associations are synthetic. For testing only.
AR Data Hub: Arkansas Education Data for Better Decisions
School and District Rating Dashboard
Entity type
Rating year

Who this is for: Arkansas families, educators, school leaders, and community partners exploring published A–F ratings and the factors behind them. Use these results with local context—not as a standalone judgment of school quality.

Dashboard
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Office of Innovation for Education

Indicator detail

Each measure is worth up to 100 points

Score distribution

F D C B A

How the index score is built

All Students indicator contribution to the total

Score over time

Annual index score and published indicator points
About the y-axis: Scales are tailored to each entity's observed score range so year-to-year changes remain visible. When comparing charts, use the labeled y-axis values; line steepness is not directly comparable across charts.

Overall index score

Indicator point history

Subject points over time

Rows show Achievement, Growth - All Students, and Growth - Lowest Quartile. Columns show ELA, Math, and Science. Every panel uses the same 0–100 point scale for direct comparison.

About the ratings, cut scores, and suppressed values

2026 SCHOOL AND DISTRICT COMPARISONS

Compare schools or districts

Choose the characteristics that matter to you. The dashboard will suggest schools or districts with similar enrollment and student populations. Rating results are shown only after suggestions are chosen; they never affect who is suggested.

Explore the map

The map is a visual overview. Use the school or district search above for a keyboard-accessible way to change the starting place; pointer users may also select a map symbol.

Side-by-side comparison

Your starting place appears first. Suggested comparisons are algorithmic matches; schools marked ‘Added by you’ do not receive match strength.

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Copy a shareable link that preserves this comparison view—including the starting place, filters, and manually added schools—so someone else can open the same setup without recreating it.

Rating results by indicator

Compare published 2026 All Students points. Maximum possible points can differ by school and indicator.

How suggestions are chosen

The dashboard first applies your area, rating-span, and grades-served filters. Schools must also have the same school type. When only the starting school's rating span is selected, suggestions use the same rating span and number of scored measures. Selecting additional spans broadens the list across accountability formulas.

Rating span is the accountability classification used for state formula rules and letter-grade cut scores; grades served is the school's actual grade range. A school qualifies for the grade filter when it serves at least one checked grade.

Each selected similarity characteristic has equal influence. For each numeric characteristic, the dashboard measures the difference from the starting place and divides it by the typical variation—its standard deviation—among eligible places. Enrollment uses a logarithmic scale so relative size matters more than the raw student-count gap. Community setting is compared by the distance between city, suburb, town, and rural categories.

The standardized differences are averaged, then converted to match strength using 100 × e −average standardized difference , rounded to a whole percent. A 100% match is closest on the selected characteristics; the percentage falls as the differences grow. It is a similarity guide, not a rating or statistical probability.

For privacy, suppressed values such as N<10 are treated as unavailable and are never estimated. Overall scores, grades, and indicator results never influence the suggestions.

Community setting describes the area around a school, not the students who attend it. For a district, the dashboard shows the setting that accounts for the largest share of enrollment across its schools. Economically disadvantaged uses the public free/reduced-price lunch measure.