Many meaningless links. Our schools are a disaster! Sorta racist, too!-----The Michigan Context and Performance Report Card: Public Elementary & Middle Schools, 2025

The Context and Performance Report Card stands apart from standard measures of academic performance. It controls for the differences in students’ socioeconomic status at each school. - Molly Macek
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This provides a more accurate appraisal of a school’s performance, since higher rates of student poverty are strongly correlated with lower academic subject test scores. 

• Without this needed adjustment, school report cards could overrate the effectiveness of schools with relatively affluent student populations or underrate the effectiveness of schools with less affluent students...

Similar report cards were published in 2013, 2015, 2017 and 2019.