I couldn’t disagree more with your assessment of these three school sites.GreatSchools defines what is wrong with information sites in that they don’t require that the user leaving comments identify themselves. Some schools will benefit if their admins & teachers go to great schools and leave “great” comments and ratings. And likewise some very good schools suffer because parents leave “drive by” or “nit-pick” type comments about some small aspect (often that doesn’t jive with the schools measured performance).

SchoolMatters is in fact a great site because of the depth of real data analysis that they research and provide. One indicator from from SchoolMatters that more parents (and school budget voters) should look at is Return on Spending adjusted for Geographic costs (RoSI adjusted for Gepographic Costs). That is a real measurement of how well the district is actually spending taxpayer dollars.