Film · 2003 · Films · 2000s
School of Rock
Scored from 413 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
A washed-up rock guitarist, broke and kicked out of his band, impersonates his substitute-teacher roommate to take a job at a prestigious prep school. He secretly turns his straight-laced fifth-grade class into a rock band to compete in a local Battle of the Bands, discovering the kids' hidden talents while dodging the suspicious principal and the real teacher whose identity he stole.
Released in 2003, School of Rock is a comedy and music film. Its comedy subtype is Goofy.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,846 2000s films, not against the whole corpus. 413 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 430 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where School of Rock lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 2000s (7,847 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 413.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
