Education Week’s annual Quality Counts report card ranks state school systems based on everything from academics and funding to socioeconomic factors that can affect student success in school and later in life. Those data show common strengths among top-performing states. See where your state ranks overall and in key areas that factor into that ranking: https://www.edweek.org/ew/collections/quality-counts-2018-state-grades/report-card-map-rankings.html