Show HN: Find the best public schools in California (calschools.net)

I built this website since I found it difficult to compare public schools based on their test results, since schools have vastly different student populations skewing test results one way or another. By isolating different populations, such as native English speakers vs. others, or students of parents with or without a college education, you can find more relevant information for your situation.

Please let me know what you think about the website.

The Search button doesn't seem to work. I select my criteria and click Search and I see the spinning progress indicator but it never finishes.

This is a great idea. I can imagine lots of parents finding this site through Google and making good use of it. Some SEO work may be worth it to make this easier for people to find. The one page dynamic nature might deter this but some simple workarounds would fix that.

Thought I'd note, however, that when I changed the district to Los Angeles and hit See Results. It remained in an endless loading screen and would not return results.

We've done a similar thing with data over at FindTheBest, except we aggregated it with the rest of the US

http://public-schools.findthebest.com

Same idea, although a bit more mature in dev