Ranking / All U.S. public schools
Public schools by free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
86,497 public schools report this measure and are ranked against each other — never against hospitals, school districts, federal agencies, which report different things entirely.
3,754 public schools share first place on this measure. A list like this reads as a league table, so the tie is stated rather than hidden behind an arbitrary alphabetical order.
Top 100
Only records scoring 0.55 or above on data completeness are listed — the same gate that governs the sitemap.
Every entry in the top 20 records the same value (100.0%), so a bar chart here would be twenty identical marks. The table carries everything it would.
Narrow by state
Every ranking can be scoped to one state.
By state
- Alabama
- Alaska
- American Samoa
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado
- Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- District of Columbia
- Florida
- Georgia
- Guam
- Hawaii
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Montana
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Puerto Rico
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- United States Virgin Islands
- Utah
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
Other rankings
Other measures for public schools