Arizona Earns a C on Chance-for-Success Index, Ranks 43rd in Nation
An Education Week State Highlight Report
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Comments Quality Counts reports state grades for educational performance in three installments. The January installment provides results on the Chance-for-Success Index, one-third of a state’s overall grade. In June, Education Week publishes the second installment, focusing on school finance. The September publication features the K-12 Achievement Index and overall grades. A state’s overall grade is the average of its scores on the three separate indices tracked by the report.
Chance for Success
The Education Week Research Center developed the Chance-for-Success Index to better understand the role that education plays in promoting positive outcomes across an individual’s lifetime. Based on an original state-by-state analysis, this index combines information from 13 indicators that span a person’s life from cradle to career. Those indicators fall into three sub-sections: early foundations, school years, and adult outcomes.
Diving into the findings, Arizona earns a C in the Chance-for-Success category and ranks 43rd. The average state earns a C-plus.
For early foundations, which examines factors that help children get off to a good start, Arizona earns a C-plus and ranks 45th. The average state posts a B.
Arizona receives a C-minus for the school years, a sub-category focusing on metrics related to pre-k enrollment through postsecondary participation. It finishes 41st in the nation in this area. By comparison, the nation as a whole earns a C-plus.
In the area of adult outcomes, based on postsecondary educational attainment and workforce indicators, Arizona’s grade is a C. It ranks 37th in the nation. The national average is a C-plus.
Vol. 38, Issue 18
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