Officials of the Department of Education, in consultation with the New York Police Department, would like to create a statistics-driven program that would pinpoint high-crime areas among its approximately 1,350 schools and increase the accountability of principals.

The proposed program, which is still under consideration and has yet to be named, is being modeled on the Police Department’s Compstat system, which tracks the number of reported major crimes in seven categories and involves weekly meetings with police brass and precinct commanders.

One goal of the program, law enforcement officials said, would be to create and maintain a uniform, publicly accessible database that combines crimes reported to the Police Department and the crimes and disciplinary violations recorded by the education department. Currently, the two agencies record their internal statistics in different ways.

The other goal, officials said, is to transplant the Police Department’s culture of accountability – which stems in part from a decade-old focus on Compstat – to the education department and its problem schools, schools that Mayor Bloomberg has said suffer from “a culture of disorder, disrespect, and disregard for the rules.”

Looking to gain a better understanding of a statistics-oriented program like Compstat, education officials have been attending the Police Department’s weekly Compstat meetings at 1 Police Plaza. A spokesman for the department, Keith Kalb, said the new statistics program was still in the infant stage of development and he declined to comment on any specifics.

“We are looking to Compstat-like techniques to see if we can apply any of the successful strategies of the Police Department in school safety,” Mr. Kalb said in a statement.

The proposed program comes on the heels of the mayor’s Impact Schools initiative, a year-old plan that floods the city’s most troubled schools with uniformed police officers and created a special task force of 200 within the Police Department to monitor progress at the schools.

Its results have been mixed. According to an annual report by Mr. Bloomberg, the police commissioner, Raymond Kelly, and the schools chancellor, Joel Klein, the level of crime at the 16 Impact schools decreased by more than 33%, with major crimes, such as robberies, weapons possession, and assaults, declining by 43%.

Despite those successes, critics point out that the statistical gains were made in nine Impact schools but the other seven showed only modest gains, no improvements, or increases in crime. At one school, Christopher Columbus High School at the Bronx, the number of reported crimes went from 4 in 2003 to 15 in 2004, the mayor reported.

In addition, while five of the 16 schools were initially dropped from the Impact School list, six schools were added.

The proposed statistics initiative also comes at the end of a battle between the mayor and members of the City Council over the types of statistics the education department releases to the public and to parents.

On December 9, the mayor vetoed a bill that would require the education department to print specific crime statistics on a school’s report card, which are sent to local parents and teacher groups as well as made available on the Internet.

The bill’s author, Peter Vallone Jr., Democrat of Queens and chairman of the public safety committee, argued that the education department was presenting crime statistics on its Web site in a “convoluted and confusing” way. The statistics should identify specific felonies, he argued, much as the Police Department’s system does.

The department currently posts year-end crime totals and makes comparisons among schools of similar enrollment size, but it does not identify the specific crimes at the schools. Instead, it lumps them together in the categories of “major crimes,” “other crimes,” and “non-criminal incidents.”

Another problem with the current system, Mr. Vallone argued, is that the current data, even in non-specific form, are not accessible to parents who do not have access to the Internet.

In opposing the bill, Mr. Bloomberg argued that the state’s Department of Education – not the council – has jurisdiction over the reporting of school crime statistics.

The mayor’s veto was overridden in a near-unanimous vote January 5.

Mr. Vallone, who was not aware of the education department’s plans to create a Compstat-like program, praised the idea. “Anytime we have more accountability and more transparency the better,” he said.