Factors Associated with School Effectiveness: Detection of High- and Low-Efficiency Schools through Hierarchical Linear Models

School effectiveness is a topic of interest addressed by numerous research projects focused on clarifying which variables contribute to the explanation educational performance. This aims find out what extent social, cultural, and academic at student school levels, as perceived families, influence performance, evaluate relevance high residual gross score criteria in selection effective or ineffective schools. Census data from diagnostic evaluations Mathematical Reasoning Linguistic Communication students certain Spanish region, over five years, have been used. The multilevel hierarchical analyses carried enabled detection centers low efficiency, well identification factors, related idiosyncrasy center they attend, significantly performance students. It was concluded that socioeconomic cultural level family expectations, commitment reading agreement were significant students’ valid criterion estimate their once socio-cultural factors controlled.