Find nearby schools
Start with a place, school level, and search radius.
SchoolScope integrations
Put school context
where decisions happen.
Help families explore schools, neighborhoods, and tradeoffs with structured public data, visible sources, and questions worth asking.
MCP server · LiveDecision Mode · Coming soon
A question becomes a research pathIllustrative
“We may move near Culver City. Which elementary schools should we explore, and where could they lead?”
Open the evidence
See academic patterns, attendance, and community context.
Explore the path ahead
Look at later grades; confirm assignments with the district.
Use cases
One connection. Several places to use it.
Bring school context into AI assistants, moving decisions, parent communities, and reporting. Each example shows a possible workflow using the live MCP tools.
Answer the follow-up, not just the lookup.
Find schools, inspect the reported patterns, and help a parent decide what to ask next.
Example conversationIllustrative workflow
ParentWhat public elementary schools are near 90004?
Search & inspectFind schools around the ZIP, then open their profiles to see available measures and reporting years.
ParentWhich show improvement, and what should I ask on a visit?
Compare & investigateCompare reported cohort growth and attendance. Ask what changed during that period and how the school supports different learning needs.
find_schools → school_profile → compare_schoolsA property is also a school question.
Help families connect a location with nearby schools, district context, and later grades without confusing proximity with an enrollment assignment.
Example: exploring a neighborhood
Start with the location
Search around a place or coordinates and keep elementary, middle, and high schools distinct.
Explain the local options
Open profiles and district context. Show the source years behind school measures.
Make the next step clear
Direct the family to confirm boundaries, admissions, and transportation with the district.
find_schools + district_profile + feeder_pathA pre-assembled REST Context Pack is planned. Explore the proposal →
Keep the evidence close to the conversation.
Support parent communities with a consistent starting point for school questions, comparisons, and visit planning.
Example: preparing a shortlist
Find and compare
Let families explore school profiles and compare two to four schools at the same level.
Save what matters
An authenticated user can read their SchoolScope watchlist through the saved-school tool.
Bring questions to a visit
Show where the data is incomplete and help families investigate their own priorities.
school_profile + compare_schools + my_watchlistPersonal watchlists require OAuth. Public school-data tools do not.
Make school claims inspectable.
Use source metadata, comparable measures, and methodology resources to support reporting and analysis.
Example: examining a reported pattern
Define the comparison
Find relevant schools or peers serving similar student populations. Keep level and peer-class rules visible.
Check the vintage
Record the source agency and reporting year. Separate data vintage from the time a response was generated.
Explain what remains unknown
A reported trend does not establish why it happened. Use the findings to guide further reporting.
similar_schools + school_profile + methodology resourcesBuilt around real parent decisions.
Planning a move
Connect a place with nearby schools and the later school path.
Explore schools on the map →Place→Nearby schools→Later grades
Proximity does not establish enrollment eligibility. Check boundaries and admissions with the district.
Checking a school
Read academic patterns, school climate, and community context together.
Find a school profile →Reported pattern→Supporting measures→Source & year
Follow an observation back to the evidence before deciding what it means for your family.
Comparing options
Keep the same measures aligned and surface what differs.
Explore school comparisons →Same level→Comparable evidence→Questions to ask
A comparison helps explain tradeoffs. It cannot predict a child’s experience.
Coming soon · Decision Mode
A guided way to turn priorities into better questions.
Decision Mode is being designed to help families describe what matters, explore relevant school patterns, and build a shortlist they can inspect.
Priorities to exploreConcept preview
My childWhat helps them feel comfortable and engaged?
Learning paceWhere do they need support or more challenge?
What mattersWhich experiences matter most to your family?
The path aheadHow are you thinking about later grades?
TravelWhat locations work for your daily routine?
Preview only. These are prompts to consider, not an active questionnaire.
What it is being designed to do
Organize family priorities, surface relevant reported patterns, and suggest questions to investigate.
What it cannot promise
Predict your child’s happiness, guarantee admission, or replace a school visit and your judgment.
No launch date promised.
A vocabulary for reported patterns
Findings keep the evidence specific.
A school’s data rarely tells a single story. Independent findings make a recurring pattern easier to describe, while the profile shows the measures and tradeoffs behind it.
High Ceiling
The average Exceeded rate across the reported grades and subjects is at least 50%.
Who gets access to advanced work, and what support is available to students still working toward the standard?
Solid Base
The average Met + Exceeded rate across the reported grades and subjects is at least 65%.
Do those results extend across subjects and student groups?
Growth Engine
The school’s aggregate cohort-change index clears our stronger-gains threshold. This is a school-level comparison across years, not tracking of individual children.
Does the pattern hold for other cohorts, and how does the school track each child’s progress?
Strong All-Around
Strength across reading, math and official California growth. Each part needs evidence; missing information cannot count as a strength.
Do the broad strengths extend to your child’s grade and learning needs?
On the Rise
Reading and math results have improved across three reporting years. This describes a recent record, not a prediction or proof of what caused it.
What has changed, and is the improvement reaching students with different starting points?
Archetypes describe evidence, not school personalities or a child’s fit. They are withheld where the data cannot support a classification. How archetypes are defined →
For builders
School context you can explain.
Connect through Streamable HTTP, discover typed tools at runtime, and use methodology resources to keep definitions close to the answer. California school data is available now.
Start with find_schools, then compose the profile and comparison tools.
Provenance travels with the answer
Source agency, data year, and methodology accompany structured school results.
Missing means unavailable
Missing growth evidence is not zero growth. Coverage differs by school, measure, and reporting year.
Comparisons have boundaries
Compare schools within a level and peer class. Scope Scores are normalized within each year; use underlying rates and state percentiles for trends.
Stay in the loop
Bring your family’s questions.
Get an update when Decision Mode is ready to try. The guided experience is still in development.
No launch date promised. MCP school-data access is already available.
Decision Mode launch updates
Sign in, then select “Join the Decision Mode list” to confirm your interest.