A new section has been added to every school page, called “Similar Schools”. This can currently be found at the bottom of the page, before the comments section.
NYC-SIFT takes multiple properties of the school currently viewed (school population, class size, survey and academic scores) and finds up to 10 similar schools based on those properties.
The algorithm used to find similar schools shares certain concepts used in modern AI implementations. As such, the algorithm will be adjusted in the future as it will be “trained” to make better matches. In the near future, another version of this will be available on program pages and be labeled “Similar Programs”.