Rankings scored on results, not ideology.
Leaders are scored strictly on outcomes the office actually controls. There is no policy-compliance scoring and no value-laden penalty anywhere in the model. Contested causal claims live in separate, clearly-labeled analysis — never as a hidden weight. Every ranking ships with a transparent methodology page and a downloadable CSV of the scoring data.
Black City Leadership Rankings
Mayors of major Black-population metros, scored across the outcome categories below. Inherited conditions are context-weighted. Scores render in black ink.
Violent-crime trajectory
Data pending — sourcingEducation
Graduation, grade-level proficiency, plus the School Conditions Index.
Data pending — NAEP / stateEconomic outcomes
Median-income growth, poverty trajectory, employment, business formation.
Data pendingHousing / homeownership
Data pendingFiscal management
Data pendingEngine note
Built generically so the same engine later powers Congress and school-district rankings without a rewrite.
| Rank | Leader / Metro | Composite score |
|---|---|---|
| — | Data pending — entities & inputs not yet sourced | — |
No mayors, scores, or rankings are shown because the inputs are not yet sourced. This table will populate only from cited, downloadable data.
School Rankings — best and worst, shipped together
Per the site-wide pairing rule, the “most-failing” ranking ships only alongside its “best Black schools” counterpart and the “what the top performers share” analysis. Sourced from NAEP, state report cards, and federal graduation data.
Best Black Schools
Data pending — NAEP / state report cardsMost-Failing Schools
Publish-blocked until its paired “best” record exists.
Data pending