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A wealth of bar passage data recently released by the American Bar Association provides the most comprehensive picture yet of which law schools' graduates are acing the test, and which are struggling.

The ABA this year overhauled the timing and format of how it reports schools' bar pass rates in a bid to get that information out to the public faster, and to make it easier to compare data across schools.

We're taking a deeper dive into the numbers this week. To kick things off, we're looking at the pass rates of law grads who took the bar exam for the first time in 2017—the most recent set of data.

Altogether, 77.2 percent of 2017's first-time bar takers passed, but there was a wide variation between schools. The University of Chicago had the highest first-time pass rate at 98.58 percent, while Arizona Summit Law School had the lowest at 26.53 percent.

Our first chart shows where each law school landed on that spectrum.

But bar pass rates vary significantly by state, so our second chart shows which schools underperformed and over performed based on statewide averages for first-time bar takers in 2017.

For each law school, the ABA combines the bar pass averages from the states where the bulk of its graduates took the bar, then adjusts that figure according to the number of graduates from individual schools who took the bar in each state. That figure, dubbed the “Average State Pass Percent,” tells you what each school's first-time pass rate should have been, based only on statewide averages.

Comparing the “Average State Pass Percent” with each school's actual pass rate, as we have done in our second chart, shows which schools are doing better and worse than statewide averages would predict. In this case, Stanford Law School is tops, while Arizona Summit is on the bottom, again.