The data from The Enquirer's analysis can be downloaded from this page. These files contain all school districts, sorted by various criteria. To search the database using our search engine, click here.

FILE FORMAT	BY RANK	BY SCHOOL DISTRICT	BY FAMILY INCOME	BY PREDICTED RANK
A text-only Web page	50K	50K	50K	50K
Adobe Acrobat PDF *	63K	63K	63K	63K
ASCII text file **	50K	50K	50K	50K
Tab-delimited ASCII text file **	41K	41K	41K	41K
Comma-delimited ASCII text file **	42K	42K	42K	42K
Microsoft Excel version 3 file ***	108K	108K	108K	108K

* The PDF reader is available at no charge.
** Can be opened in any spreadsheet program.
*** Recent versions of Excel and Lotus 1-2-3 should be able to import this file.

Notes:

• Poverty and income levels have a large impact on school test scores in Ohio. In fact, three measures listed we looked at -- the percentage of a school district's students on Aid for Dependent Children, the percentage who qualify for free or reduced lunches, and the district's median family income -- can explain more than two-thirds of the test scores posted by 607 school districts.
• Ninth-grade students did not take science tests in 1996.
• Five school districts were omitted from the list because of incomplete test score data.
• Some districts don't participate in the free-lunch program, giving them a zero (0) in that catagory. This did not significantly alter their score because of the weight given other factors.
• An overview of the study methodology is available.