From the WINSS home page, click on the red "Data Analysis" ribbon.

The next screen is a search screen. To view school or district data, fill in one of the boxes on the right. Type in a whole name or a part of a name. Next click on the "GO" button. If you have trouble finding your school or district, try typing in a part of the name, click on the first letter of the name, OR click on a CESA.

The database should return a list of schools or districts. Each school or district name is a hyperlink that will take you to pages where you can click on questions you want answered.

Data are organized according to four main questions:

How well are students performing academically?		Here you'll find data about whether students are meeting academic standards: test scores, grade advancement / retention, ACT, Advanced Placement Program® Exams, graduation / high school completion, postgraduation plans and more.

What programs, staff, and money are available?		Here you'll find data about school programs and resources that may have an impact on the success of students: course offerings and school-supported activities, staffing patterns, teacher qualifications, district revenue, district costs, and more.
What about attendance and behavior at school?		Here you'll find data about standards of the heart and student behaviors that affect their success academically: attendance, truancy, student participation in school-supported activities, coursetaking, suspension rates, expulsion rates, weapon or drug related incidents, other infractions or offenses, dropouts, and more.
What are student/school demographics?		Here you'll find data about student diversity which may have an impact on strategies and programs to help all students meet standards: enrollment by grade, gender, race/ethnicity, English language proficiency, disability status, primary disability, poverty status, and more.

After you click on one of the four main questions you will need to select a subquestion. You will then see a page with a graph and table that include data relating to the subquestion. Most pages have "View By" options so you can check data about performance and behavior by student group and "Compare To" options so you can see trends over time, find out what is typical districtwide, statewide, or nationwide, and how other schools like or near your school are doing. District and State data pages usually have "School Type" or "Grade" options at the top so you can view or compare data for elementary, middle, and high schools.     The left side of each page includes "District/School home page" links if they exist, a "Change school or district" link that will take you to the school search screen, a "Hide numbers" link that will remove the table below the graph on the page, a "Read about the data" link that provides information about how data were collected and how rates are calculated, a "Glossary" link, and a "Download options" link that provides comma delimited versions of data by topic. Links to "Questions to consider…", "Download data on this page", and "View Adequate Year Progress report" are included at the bottom of most pages.

WINSS data have distinct limits so you are encouraged to click on the links to district and school home pages on the upper left for more information about the school or district. You may also want to review other sources of school information.