<p>Of course the South just has more schools than the West, period, so I'd assume that the number of Southern schools with scores under 3.0 would be greater, too.</p>
<p>Thanks for the data, Hawkette. The median scores state-by-state seem much more broadly dispersed than the last time I scanned them, a few years back. I wonder if some historically low-scoring states have been doing things to skew their data, such as gerrymandering which students take the tests at what times?</p>