Mentioning Florida I remember an issue of Freethought Today calling it Flori-duh because of this and the 2000 election. Seriously, I would put Liberty University and really most "christian" schools somewhere below "Billy Bob's Skool Uv Edjookashunal stuf."

There was that ranking a few years back for science education - only state I remember was Kansas getting an "F-" or "not even failed."

I like the idea, although I have a few concerns.

First of all, what about religious private schools? With Bible classes and chapel services and daily prayer, these schools are technically teaching out of religious texts and infusing academics with religoin. But some are relatively moderate. The Christian high school I attended was not particularly advanced, but the curriculum did include evolution - no ID, and no Creationism "side-by-side." My biology teacher presented it to us by basically saying, "You can believe what you want, but this is a valid scientific theory, and you should at least know what it says before you reject it." Schools like this sort of bridge some of your criteria, so perhaps better categorization would be needed.

Second, I doubt any school would get a straight A. Although the line between church and state has been blurring in recent times, I still think it would be wrong to talk about religion in a school setting outside of a religion class. In a public school, telling kids that theism is fallacy is inappropriate, unnecessary, and would probably lead to legal troubles. The role of a school should be to present students with information; it is up to them to make of it what they will. This doesn't just pertain to matters of religion and science, but also in matters of philosophy, government, and economics. Telling kids what to think borders on brainwashing, which is exactly what we're trying to avoid.

I like the idea of the website, but I just think the criteria and categories would have to be revised before making it into a reality.

That's scary! At least you escaped, haha. Of course, it's not like our science classes were totally free of religion. I distinctly remember one of the questions on an honors chemistry test: If God had not bestowed certain properties on water, life would be impossible. List three of these properties. (or something to that effect)

Some possible answers were 1) high affinity for hydrogen bonding 2) Lower density when in the solid state (God wanted to make sure the fish could still survive in iced-over ponds in the winter) and 3) neutral pH (useful in biological systems)

Of course when I got to college, I found myself ill-prepared for the biology major I had hoped to pursue, so it's been a tremendous game of catch-up the past couple years. There was a lot of information that other kids received in public school educations that I had never been exposed to - everything from how to use certain lab equipment to acid-base chemistry to deeper understanding of biological pathways. Some of my peers were shocked to learn that Chem 101 wasn't just a glorified review session for me. So while my high school wasn't totally in the dark ages, we certainly weren't cutting-edge either.