The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Website has a tool that allows visitors to search a community by ZIP code for environmental facts about the area, including pollution statistics, the location of hazardous waste sites and information about the area's watershed.
Scorecard.org is dedicated to helping the public find information about local environmental health issues and generates a pollution report card at the county level, giving information on such topics as air and water quality.
A national database of school demographic information can be found on the National Center for Education Statistics Website. Click on the "School, College and Library Search" tab at the top in order to view data including a particular school's student-to-teacher ratio or enrollment by race and ethnicity - visit the site.
For a snapshot of academic performance and to compare schools, you might browse the School Matters Website, a service of Standard & Poor's - visit School Matters. Another site, Great Schools, offers similar tools – go to Great Schools website.
