The ECLS project surveyed roughly one thousand schools, taking samples of twenty children from each.

The school was ranked 240th in the magazine's 2008 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.

The school was ranked 198th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.

As part of his audit, Mr. McCall surveyed 11 schools where sixth-grade reading scores had improved by at least 20 percent.

The Board of Education, she said, cooperated in gathering information and surveying 391 schools, a third of the system.

Ms. Gotbaum's office randomly surveyed 99 public schools by telephone throughout the five boroughs and reached 23 of the parent coordinators.

By February 1989, however, the task force had surveyed only 630 schools, meaning that workers had completed about 65 surveys a month, the report said.

That meant that in the three months before the deadline, the inspectors would have to survey more than 430 schools, or about 140 schools a month.

Mr. Weiner's staff recently surveyed 92 high schools across the city and found the disciplinary process mired in delays.

When government researchers surveyed 20 local schools, they found that more than a third lacked such programs.