Tagged school data

6/29/2026

The Best Counties for Public Schools in America (It Isn't the Richest Ones)

Most "best counties" lists are just income rankings wearing a lab coat. Rank by which counties beat the test scores their poverty level predicts, and the leaderboard is led by Texas border counties, not wealthy suburbs.

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Kate Carter

6/21/2026

Student-Teacher Ratios by State: Where Classrooms Are Most and Least Crowded

The gap between the most and least crowded states is about two to one, roughly 11 students per teacher in the Northeast against 21 in parts of the West. But the more useful question is whether that number predicts anything for a child, and the honest answer is more complicated than the ranking suggests.

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Arthur Chen