Blue ribbon schools are the schools that have been selected and honored by government for school's academic achievement or significant improvement. For academic success, the schools are selected based on academic assessment on students and other criteria (mainly the results from math and reading test results). For academic improvement, schools are evaluated based on the location of schools, 40%minority students, income level of families and on how these disadvantaged students performed on these reading and math test. This is a good indication of how schools seriously think about their academic improvement.。