Onboard offers detailed, comprehensive school profiles which go “beyond the numbers” to include a school’s performance level, state test scores, teacher profiles, and even the physical condition of the building, all which can be compared at a zip, state, city and address level.
- School Profiles: These reports help families understand the educational environment and opportunities in a given area. Information such as the presence of AP classes, Before and After School Programs, Blue Ribbon Schools, the breakdown of enrollment by class and the number of teachers can all weigh heavily in parents’ decision making process in determining the best place for their family to live.
Our partnership with GreatSchools.net allows you to provide invaluable information allowing you to show your visitors first hand parental testimonies, along with their ratings and reviews, to give you the full picture of each school in a given area. All GreatSchools data is standardized to Onboard’s basic geography levels, including neighborhood, zip and city/place. This allows developers to easily integrate this data along with our Community, Points of Interest, Neighborhood boundaries and much more.
- NCLB State Test Scores: Test scores are collected from the state Department of Education
- GreatSchools.net Ratings: Individual school performance ratings based on comparative standardized test scores with metrics for specific grade and student categories
- School Ratings and Reviews: Provided by any of the following groups: Parent/Guardian, Teacher, Staff, Administrator, Student or Former Student, and tightly monitored by GreatSchools.net to ensure reviews are at the highest integrity level
The Onboard Advantage
- SEO: Increase your search engine visibility, rankings, time on site, and lead generation by providing homebuyers with school profiles, ratings and reviews directly on your site.
- Implementation: All GreatSchools data is seamlessly integrated into our school profiles for easy display on websites. There is no need to link off to another site. Data User Guides and file samples will help developers implement quickly and seamlessly.
- Flexibility: Clients can chose from over 100 fields of data.
- Coverage (as of October 4, 2011):
- 89,623 public schools
- 15,002 private schools
- 6,720 Catholic schools
- 2,002 four-year colleges and universities
- 1,903 two-year colleges
- 6,046 pre-school and daycare locations
- GreatSchools.net Partnership Additions
- 776,739 school reviews and ratings
- Covering 90,000 public schools and 15,000 private schools
- Approximately 75,000 GreatSchools ratings
- Approximately 20,000 reviews and 500 ratings added each month
- Frequency of Updates
- School reviews – Daily or Bi-Monthly
- School ratings – Daily or Bi-Monthly
- School profiles – Quarterly
- Test scores – Quarterly
- Greatschools.net ratings – Quarterly
Delivery
Bulk - Data files are delivered directly to your development team offering ultimate flexibility to design & develop a unique customer experience on your website, agent portal, or mobile application through highly organized and well-documented formats for easy database integration (i.e., Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, DB2, etc.).
Other Delivery Options
- Neighborhood Navigator is our easy plug-in neighborhood search tool with built in community, school, market and points of interest data embedded on your site with your company’s branding.
- Onboard Mobile allows you to develop custom mobile sites and applications with cross-platform search continuity with all of our community, school, market and neighborhood data. IDX data in approved markets is also available.