How the academic score is calculated

Two published results, nothing else

We never use the school’s overall report-card grade (it already includes both results), any other indicator, or a single subgroup or grade. When growth is missing we don’t substitute anything — the school simply has no score.

From state results to a 1–10 score

1. Check that each result counts

   The school’s all-students result must be published as a number from 0 to 100 with its A–F indicator grade, appear once, and rest on students tested at that school that year: at least one tested grade must have its own published result, which the state shows only for 10 or more students. Blank or masked values, and schools reported only through another school’s results, don’t count.

2. Compare with similar schools

   Each result becomes a percentile among Oklahoma schools of the same state model type — elementary or middle — in the same school year: 100 × (schools with a lower value + half of those with the same value) ÷ schools compared. A group needs at least 30 schools. Percentiles are rounded to one decimal.

3. Combine them equally

   The two percentiles are averaged with equal 50% weights and rounded to one decimal (halves round up).

4. Convert to 1–10

   The combined value sets the score in bands of ten, decided after rounding:

   • Score 1for a combined value of 0.0–9.9
   • Score 2for a combined value of 10.0–19.9
   • Score 3for a combined value of 20.0–29.9
   • Score 4for a combined value of 30.0–39.9
   • Score 5for a combined value of 40.0–49.9
   • Score 6for a combined value of 50.0–59.9
   • Score 7for a combined value of 60.0–69.9
   • Score 8for a combined value of 70.0–79.9
   • Score 9for a combined value of 80.0–89.9
   • Score 10for a combined value of 90.0–100.0

Who each school is compared with

When a school shows no score

A school without both results gets the school icon and a short reason — never a number or a zero. For the 2024–25 data, 1,780 Oklahoma schools were matched and 962 have a score.

Schools outside Oklahoma, such as those near Fort Worth, Texas, show “Academic scores aren’t available for schools in this state yet.” Colleges aren’t scored.

How the scores are spread

Very high and very low scores are less common because a school has to rank high, or low, on both results.

Matching the right school

The schools on a listing come from U.S. Department of Education (NCES) records. A state result is attached only through the official crosswalk in the NCES Common Core of Data — the state school code recorded against each NCES id — and only when the school’s ZIP code or city and its grade span agree in both records. On the page, the listed school’s own address must agree again; otherwise it shows no score.