Public Elementary Schools' Performance in Mexico

Human and material resources allocation and its effects on public elementary schools' performance in Mexico reveal priorities that are not always explicit on education policies. In addition, those resources interact with families' social context and students' educational lag. The combined effects of these factors are analyzed on schools' performance by using the results obtained by schools on the standardized test enlace of 2012. Heterogeneity of schools is considered by its decil ranking, and a model is estimated to build indicators that group the effects of resources and context on schools' performance through a quintile regression. Relevant results show, on one hand, that students' lag condition schools' performance and, on the other hand, that public schools compensate for social and scholar disadvantages.