Greatschools.net is a resource for families to provide ratings of schools. The site allows scoring a school on several 5 point scales, a wholistic one and specific dimentions and a place for open-ended comments. This is similar to the 'rubric' qualitative scoring that will be part of Palouse Prairie School's assessment process. A weakness of the site's process is that individual raters don't have a way of 'norming' (coming into agreement about scores). Typically this results in more noise in the data and often higher scores than a normed group of raters might produce.
In the process you select you role (parent, student, etc). The comments also make some interesting reading from different perspectives.
The regional Expeditionary Learning schools are all rated in the system. Summit School in Spokane Valley rated 8/10. Recently a student said: "I was a student at Summit for 5 years and I will never forget it. We went on some amazing trips that were for learning yet it was not just a trip to where ever and you never look back on it. You had lots of fun and cant wait to tell your parents all about your day. Not just the 'It was fine'. One of the things I loved the fact that you bonded with the students and the teachers. When a teacher left the school you were really sad to see them go. You didn't just bond with your friends. There was no groups that believed that they were better than others. I was there from the begining and have seen it grow from having 3 grades in one class to fill the class to fill the class to having a waiting list a mile long. Summit is amazing."
ANSER school in Boise got 9/10 but Pocatello Community Charter School didn't fare as well (5/10).
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