From The Trussville Tribune staff reports
TRUSSVILLE — According to a new ranking by Backgroundchecks.org, the Trussville City School system is third in the state.
A recent article described TCS as an “elite district” that performs well on assessment tests and has a dropout rate below 1%.
Alabama’s best school district was Vestavia Hills. Number two was Mountain Brook.
The following variables contributed to the ranking: number of students (K-12), graduation rate, school funding per student, student to teacher ratio, percent of students scoring above proficient in standardized state Math test, percent of students scoring above proficient in standardized state Reading and Language test. Data from a total of 10,247 public school districts were used to compute a score for each school district.