GreatSchools.org

The rep who dealt with my support request apparently thought I should be able to handle the issue myself. In addition to requiring multiple follow up contacts, they were condescending and snarky.

After reaching out over 15 times to have inaccurate district and school information for our home there is nothing else to say other than they keep referring us to "Precisely" yet we are not allowed to contact them because they do not have a customer service department. Knowing this information, GreatSchools take zero ownership over the incorrect information and promise to update it quarterly. After waiting for 2 quarters to pass, they have yet to correct any information OR have any plans to.

Deleted my review about racism and bullying that my daughter experienced at Amy Montessori School in Brookfield, WI. The stocking part was that the preschool teacher saw it and did nothing to stop it. It seems like GreatSchools only wants to report positive reviews. I think that someone should create another school review website which is more honest.

They have changed the rankings so that "equity" becomes more important

If youre asian, ie from china/india/philipines etc use niche, and check demographics of student body

Dont risk your childs education for american wokeism, as many of you will not be citizens but H1b

Use niche, check sat/act and google or youtube school for any violence/gun issues etc

They did a major overhaul of how they score schools in 2017 and now it's terrible and damaging to society, it essentially tells families to move to areas that are all-white with zero diversity. Let me explain. A very diverse school in a nice town on the West Coast, if students of different races average different scores, then the overall school is PENALIZED assuming incorrectly they are treating students differently. Meanwhile a poor all-white school with lower overall average scores, still gets 9/10 or 10/10 ratings, again because they aren't penalized by this idiot racial-difference penalization. Maybe the site had good intentions but it actually screws over families that chose to live in diverse towns and rewards all-white supremacy. It's terrible and Zillow should decouple immediately!

Great schools.org took down my review for unfounded reasons, and replaced my negative review with five five positive reviews.
Any reputable site would put a disclaimer if five five positive reviews funnel in on the same day.
My review was an honest as I mentioned one school could improve with working collaboratively. I did mention poor morale but not names. My review was accepted but taken down the same that all the five glowing reviews were posted.This is very dangerous for prospective employees snd students. The school reviewed charges 45K a year, and teachers are yelled at in front of parents snd students. I also got " deep breather" calls in my classroom from an internal community phone located down in lobby. ( anyone can use it) I also got glares from upper management. The school has a five star rating after 75 percent of the staff left in June. And this high turnover has been a pattern in the last several years.
Do not trust greatschools.org

Great schools is a tool for pro-charter & private school pushers (you'll notice that those schools are not rated). It's a tool used for modern day redlining that serves to exacerbate housing segregation. It should be illegal for real estate sites to push this.

Great Schools only reports positive, glowing reviews of schools. It blocks any truthful, negative reviews of schools that they list on their website. The lack of transparency and truthfulness is shameful. It provides incorrect and misleading information to families.

Why do you claim an accurate rating when you divide kids into low income and everybody else? Last time I checked 2+2=4 no matter how much your household earns. Just go by the TEST scores, state and national averages.

They remove accurate negative reviews to make schools look better. Bet you can guess who pays the organization. Don't trust it!

Steer clear of Great Schools. The major orgs funding the site heavily promote the corporatization and privatization of public schools and it appears to be more of a page designed to funnel parents into stumbling onto pro-charter websites than anything else.