Story ideas, surfaced from the live data.
Every lead below draws on the same official records that power this site, covering every public, charter, and alternative school in Philadelphia. Each idea pairs a reporting question with what the numbers show and a full analysis of tables and charts. The first ten add a reporter’s briefing: context, supporting findings, and concrete directions for chasing the story down.
Featured investigations
Full reporter briefingsTen leads worth a reporter’s week. Each carries a complete briefing, the context behind the numbers, the supporting findings, and a checklist of records to request and people to call.
More data-driven leads
Question · finding · analysisFleshed-out ideas with a question, what the data shows, and the tables and charts behind it, ready for a reporter to pick up.
Quick query prompts
One-line leadsShort exploratory queries against the dataset, each is a single finding you can pull on, expand into its own story, or use to localize a citywide trend to one building.