How one college prep site rates your school system on 3 big priorities

It’s hard to argue that superintendents and their leadership teams have three higher priorities than student success, school quality, and the safety of everyone who learns and works in their district.

Here is where all 50 state school systems rank on these priorities based on graduation rates, access to resources, test scores, bullying-prevention programs and dozens of other data points crunched by Scholaroo, a college scholarship search platform.

Here are the top 10 overall, followed by the top 10 in each category:

1. New Jersey
2. New Hampshire
3. Vermont
4. Connecticut
5. Massachusetts
6. New York
7. Maine
8. Delaware
9. Pennsylvania
10. Virginia
11. Colorado

Student success

1. Massachusetts
2. Connecticut
3. New Hampshire
4. New Jersey
5. Maryland
6. Maine
7. Virginia
8. Vermont
9. Washington
10. Colorado

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Student safety

1. New Jersey
2. Colorado
3. Maine
4. Vermont
5. Ohio
6. New Hampshire
7. Delaware
8. South Dakota
9. Oregon
10. North Dakota

School quality

1. New Hampshire
2. Connecticut
3. Vermont
4. New York
5. New Jersey
6. Massachusetts
7. Delaware
8. Rhode Island
9. Pennsylvania
10. Virginia

The site also ranks state systems on bullying and dropout rates, math scores, spending per pupil, and student-teacher ratios.