The opening screen will show a series of tabs at the top, listing different categories of information. This the best place to start. It will automatically open with a comparison to the state average.
Users can also customize their own list of districts for comparison.
Also, if you don't know what a term means or where a number comes from, click on it, and a glossary or formula explanation will pop up. But when Elizabeth Davenport, a Detroit mother and high school librarian, started scanning the site for information on local schools, she wasn't sure what to make of the hundreds of lines of detailed data and complicated jargon on her computer screen. I'm not exactly sure what that's supposed to mean. Davenport, whose teenage daughter attends Grosse Pointe Woods' private University Liggett School, said she would be apt to search the site to compare individual schools, but that information is not yet available. With the state having such animosity toward the City of Detroit, I would question some of that information.