In a new report, the Nutter administration looks back on its successes of its seven-year term to date.

With elections on the horizon, Mayor Nutter’s office has released a retrospective that suggests a new way to view an administration on its way out. Titled “Tale of the Tape: 1984-2014,” the report consists of carefully curated datasets that paint a picture of a city in healthy post-op recovery, a city passing through the eye of the storm left by its former City Halls. While there are plenty of challenges ahead, the report admits, the administration is “proud of the gains over the last seven years.”

Here are the key notes on the data:

• Violent crime and fire fatalities are down; Philadelphians are safer.

• We are better better educated, with local funding and number of residents with bachelor’s degree at an all-time high.

• We are growing stronger in numbers, with a population spike the city hasn’t seen since the sixties.

• We have more jobs.

• We pay fewer wage taxes.

• Our children are healthier, with fewer infant mortalities, and higher vaccination rates. And we have few smokers to boot.

The Tape crunches these numbers against Nutter’s predecessors — not just John Street (2000-2008), but going as far back as Ed Rendell (1991-2000) and Wilson Goode (1984-1991).

As flattering as these comparisons can be, it’s impossible to read them and not think about all the things Nutter could have done. Although he came into office following the inimitably scandalous John Street (dubbed by Time Magazine in 2005 as one of America’s “worst mayors”), one of the criticisms against Nutter has been his lack of corruptive genes, with some going as far as to say “...he has refused to acknowledge the realities of politics in Philadelphia, where you must dole out favors and occasionally yank them away in order to push through legislation.”

The report highlights his favorable numbers like the two-year lows in violent crime, the increased number of Philadelphians with bachelor’s degrees, and the rise in education funding. It emits things, too. The words “pension” and “deficit,” for example, are not mentioned once.

Nutter came in during one of the worst recessions since the Great Depression. Can we blame him for some of the circumstances he faced? Prior to his administration, Philly ranked as one of the country’s nine worst-performing cities in terms of pension funding between 2007 and 2009. Nutter was also greeted with a $100 million municipal deficit that, despite his actions to make budget cuts, grew to $1 billion over the coming years.

On paper, 4,164 jobs were added to Philly in Nutter’s seven-year tenure, whereas Street lost 33,200 jobs for the city, Rendell 10,600, and Goode a staggering 38,500. However ingloriously, Nutter may indeed have brought Philadelphia through the worst of the storm in terms of Philly’s lost industries. Still, 4,000 jobs is nothing compared to what other American cities on par with Philadelphia have added since 2008.

“Tale of the Tape” simply reminds of what we already knew: Nutter’s administration was neither the worst nor the best, but we’re certainly ready to move on.