Take many factors into account when picking a school

“If there is one useful thing that has resulted from No Child Left Behind, it’s that for the first time, the [U.S.] government requires schools to track and publish test scores broken down by racial and ethnic group. And the numbers show something interesting: White kids, on average, score about the same in all subjects no matter what school they attend. Education researchers have found that it’s not race or ethnicity at all that best predict how a child will perform on a test: it’s socioeconomic status.” Read more of this reporter’s encounters with her neighborhood school at The Washington Post website.