A NATIONAL PROJECT OF THE VISUALIZED SCHOOLS SERIES

Visualized American Public Schools

Every state, one map at a time. This project extends the Visualized Missouri Public Schools model to all fifty states — interactive district-level maps of enrollment, funding, teachers, and achievement, built entirely from public data. Each state wears a color drawn from its flag. Click yours.

START HERE

Choose a state

Hover for the name; click to open that state’s page. Missouri — the flagship site, fully built — wears its own slate blue.

State shapes: U.S. Census Bureau cartographic boundaries (Albers projection, Alaska and Hawaii inset). Colors: each state’s flag, one distinctive hue per state.

ALL STATES

Or browse the list

Alabama→ Alaska→ Arizona→ Arkansas→ California→ Colorado→ Connecticut→ Delaware→ District of Columbia→ Florida→ Georgia→ Hawaii→ Idaho→ Illinois→ Indiana→ Iowa→ Kansas→ Kentucky→ Louisiana→ Maine→ Maryland→ Massachusetts→ Michigan→ Minnesota→ Mississippi→ Missouri→ Montana→ Nebraska→ Nevada→ New Hampshire→ New Jersey→ New Mexico→ New York→ North Carolina→ North Dakota→ Ohio→ Oklahoma→ Oregon→ Pennsylvania→ Rhode Island→ South Carolina→ South Dakota→ Tennessee→ Texas→ Utah→ Vermont→ Virginia→ Washington→ West Virginia→ Wisconsin→ Wyoming→

ABOUT THIS PROJECT

Why visualize every state?

Policy debates about public schools are usually argued with statewide averages. Averages hide the map. When you shade every school district by the numbers — who is enrolling, what a community can raise in taxes, what teachers are paid, how students are doing — the geography of American education becomes visible, and so do the places averages leave behind. The Missouri flagship site proved the model; this project carries it to every state, one map at a time, always from public data, always with the methods shown.

WHERE THIS STANDS

Every state page currently shows its school district boundaries — the canvas the data will be painted on. States are being built out Missouri-style in phases: enrollment first, then funding, teachers, and achievement.

THE DATA BACKBONE

National sources cover every state the same way: NCES Common Core of Data (enrollment, staffing), Census F-33 (school finance), SEDA (achievement and pandemic recovery), and Census SAIPE (child poverty). State-specific depth — tax levies, salary schedules — is added state by state.