In 2009, the state classified 47% of Wylie's graduates as "college ready," meaning ready to undergo university studies.

The law does not specify how states should classify "insufficient jobs" areas and instead left that to the Agriculture Department.

The state classifies its citizens with a system that starts with the cephalic index.

Mexico's states classify their settlements in a variety of fashions:

About 40 percent of new development, he said, is in areas the state classifies as rural or environmentally sensitive.

The state classifies the prison as a maximum security institution.

In 2009, the state classified 10% of Pinkston's graduates as "college ready," or ready to undergo university studies.

The state has classified the high school as being in need of improvement under the federal No Child Left Behind law.

He noted that the state had classified the hospital as "financially distressed" in 1995.

In 2009, the state classified almost half of White's graduates as "college ready," or ready to undergo university studies.