I built SPMB Bali for a small, practical reason: a student choosing a high school has almost no way to know whether their score makes them competitive anywhere. The information exists. It is just scattered, unranked, and effectively unreadable at the moment you actually need it.
So I gathered the academic-track entry scores for all 88 public high schools across Bali's nine districts, sorted them into tiers, and made it something you could sit down with your parents and actually use. Here is where you stand. Here is what is realistic. Here is what is a stretch.
That part is useful, and it is the part I set out to build.
But it is not the part that stayed with me.
When you line all 88 schools up next to each other, a pattern arrives that you cannot un-see. The distance between the top schools in Denpasar and the schools on the outer islands is not a gentle slope. It is a cliff. Two children, the same age, the same island chain, the same national curriculum — and wildly different odds, decided largely by where they happened to be born.
I did not build a tool to make that argument. I built a ranking tool, and the argument fell out of the data on its own. That is usually how it goes. You go looking for one thing and the numbers hand you something heavier.
The source is on GitHub. If you are a student or a parent, I hope it helps you choose. If you work in education policy in Bali, I hope it makes you uncomfortable in a useful way.
