A DEA-Based Approach to Education Efficiency Evaluation: Seven Middle Schools as Examples

Efficiency is one of the important issues for middle school and its results can be served as a direction to invest. We propose a data envelopment analysis (DEA)-based approach to ranking education efficiency of middle schools. The paper give an evaluation results about seven middle schools through six indicators based on DEA. The results indicate that some difference of development level exists and they should adjust their direction and intensity. At last, some suggestions bring this paper into close.