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School performance

US Dept. of Education EDFacts

Includes data on

  • Proficiency
  • Participation
  • Cohort Graduation Rate

http://www2.ed.gov/about/inits/ed/edfacts/data-files/index.html

NC DPI Accountability and Testing Summary Results

These are the school "grades". Description is here: http://www.ncpublicschools.org/docs/accountability/reporting/spgbckgrndpack15.pdf.

Data may be found here: http://www.ncpublicschools.org/accountability/reporting/

2015-2016 results are here: http://www.dpi.state.nc.us/docs/accountability/reporting/acctsumm16.xlsx

NC DPI School Accountability disaggregated data

Main site for the data is here: http://www.ncpublicschools.org/accountability/reporting/leaperformancearchive/

Data for the last three years is stored as zipped data. The 2015-2016 school year, for example, may be found here: http://www.ncpublicschools.org/docs/accountability/reporting/disag1516.zip

Data sets for 2012-2013 and prior may be found here: http://accrpt.ncpublicschools.org/docs/disag_datasets/.

It'd be real cool if there were a codebook or something to help me understand what this data is.

NC Report Cards

http://www.ncreportcards.org/src/

Must pull data manually, one school, one year at a time. The data is pretty awful in terms of content and presentation.

NC SAT performance

http://www.ncpublicschools.org/accountability/reporting/sat/

Data is stored in Excel.

2016 data is found here: http://www.ncpublicschools.org/docs/accountability/reporting/sat/2016/satprfrm1516.xlsx

2015 data is found here: http://www.ncpublicschools.org/docs/accountability/reporting/sat/2015/satresults15.xls

Should be possible to script fetching the URLs. Structure of the file is pretty awful, but I've seen worse. Data goes as far back as 1995.

AP reports

Again, Excel. The URLs don't use a common naming scheme, but there are only three years. Looks to be a manual munge.

http://www.ncpublicschools.org/docs/accountability/reporting/apresults15.xlsx http://www.ncpublicschools.org/docs/accountability/reporting/aptestresults14.xlsx http://www.ncpublicschools.org/docs/accountability/reporting/apresults1113.xls

Data may be found here: http://www.dpi.state.nc.us/docs/program-monitoring/titleIA/2015-16.xls

Cohort graduation rates

http://www.ncpublicschools.org/accountability/reporting/cohortgradrate

Ancillary data

School disciplinary action

http://www.ncpublicschools.org/research/discipline/reports/#consolidated

NC DPI Title I schools

http://www.dpi.state.nc.us/program-monitoring/titleIA/

National Center for Education Statistics

This will give a list of all public schools for specific academic years. Construction of the data is manual.

http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/elsi/

American Community Survey

The data may be manually gathered from the Census website: https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/

Much easier to fetch the data using the R package acs.

NC Wise

Jeebus, what the @#$# is this? http://www.ncwise.org/ http://www.ncwise.org/documents/contact_us/NCWISE_Schools.pdf

Wish list

  • School funding
    • By source
    • Federal
    • State
    • Local
    • Bond issues?
  • School spending
    • Instructional services
    • system-wide support services
    • Ancillary services
    • non-programmed charges (includes charter)
    • Capital outlay