[jimjamuser]

Originally Posted by ehonour

This survey (not the one originally cited by OP) provides part of the answer to the OP's original question, when you read the criteria for evaluation:

"WalletHub ranked each state's public schools for "Quality" and "Safety" using 33 relevant metrics. Metrics included high school graduation rate among low-income students, math and reading scores, median SAT and ACT scores, pupil-teach ratio, the share of armed students, the number of school shootings between 2000 and June 2020, bullying incidence rate, and more"

Some of these factors are good measures. Many others are NOT what I would consider to be measures of a "good school." They are factors brought in by the PC crowd with the intent of social engineering. It can even be reasonably argued that lack of safety in schools is a direct result of the PC attitudes, as others have noted above. And unfortunately, it is those same factors, used as measures of "learning," that have de-emphasized the core purposes of reading, writing, and arithmetic.

The Wallet hub criteria more correctly quantifies MODERN school situations. The 3 R's are old school thinking.