A CommunityViewer GIS project fileset and interactive analysis tools have been developed by Proximity to facilitate analysis of Texas school and school district level performance based on the 2008 TAKS data.  For more information, see:

Access new national scope 2006-07 school year school and school district characteristics.

School district interactive analysis: http://proximityone.com/dist0607.htm

Use the U.S. K-12 school interactive ranking table at http://proximityone.com/schools.htm to view, rank and compare individual schools.  All public schools with enrollment of 25 or more are included (93,000).  Subject matter items are presented in a spreadsheet-like manner and include school name, state postal abbreviation, school codes, charter status, district, ZIP code, grade range, enrollment, percent free and reduced lunch, percent non-English speakers, area median household income, area percent population in poverty, area percent school graduates.  Updated since October with 2006-07 school year data.

Third quarter 2008 census tract demographics are scheduled to be accessible via MetroDynamics.  The extended census tract profile, accessible for any of the U.S. approximate 65,000 census tracts, now includes selected Census 2000 demographics, 2008 demographics by quarter.  See additional information and examples of viewing/analyzing these tract demographics with MetroDynamics.

The housing price index by metropolitan area for 3rd quarter 2008 data were released by the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight in late November (11/23/08) and are accessible in MetroDynamics (MD) database.