Services for Families

Data-Driven School Choice

In a growing number of states across the country, families face a rapidly shifting school choice landscape. State dashboards, charter lotteries, magnet programs, expanded ESAs, and microschools offer more options than ever, but the information can be confusing, incomplete, or full of hidden trade-offs.

Many families struggle to interpret growth scores, proficiency ratings, specialized program descriptions, vendor pitches, and marketing narratives. This interpretive gap can make it harder to identify the schools that truly fit their child’s learning style, strengths, and goals.

A 55-minute 1:1 session helps you make sense of it all. Together, we will:

• Translate school performance data into plain language, including growth metrics, proficiency scores, and other commonly confusing indicators

• Identify real strengths, trade-offs, and what marketing signals actually mean for your child or learner

• Focus on fit for your child, not just rankings, prestige, or brand recognition

Why this matters:
Modern choice systems assume that all families have the knowledge and fluency to interpret complex data, but experience shows this isn’t true. Parents with higher cultural capital often navigate these systems with confidence, while others may struggle to separate noise from meaning. Many states recently invested in new school performance dashboards. Scores now include both proficiency and growth indicators, weighted differently by grade level. Understanding how these measures interact is key to evaluating schools accurately and confidently. These sessions provide a framework to decode the numbers, narratives, and signals, helping you make informed, research-based decisions.

Includes:

• Pre-session review of your selected schools or other goals (via intake form)

• Live virtual consultation

• Optional transcript of the session.

Founding rate available.