Sunday, November 14, 2010

Public School Finder App


Shows the closest 30 Public schools based on user's current location, or, the Zipcode/address searched.

Click on the markers to see school names, click on the Pop-ups to see details for the particular schools.

You can see the total enrollments, Student/Teacher ratio, percentage of students receiving Free/Reduced priced meals (also known as Economically disadvantaged in public school lingo). You can also checkout the Ethnic distribution of student population.

Datasets used in the application are publicly available at National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a part of the U.S. Department of Education. Checkout their website http://nces.ed.gov for more information.


It's now available in iTunes App Store.