A school's statewide rank compares its API score to all other schools of the same school type in the state. School's API scores are ranked in deciles within school type: elementary, middle, and high. For each of the three types, schools' API scores are first sorted from lowest to highest and then divided into ten equal groups (or deciles) ranked from lowest (1) to highest (10). Each decile for each school type contains 10 percent of all schools of that type. This first process produces the statewide ranks. School districts, schools in the Alternative Schools Accountability Model (ASAM), and special education schools do not receive statewide ranks.