Is it theoretically possible that 100% of the students leaving the schools are leaving the district and 100% of the students entering the schools are moving to the district? The data you have access to doesn't allow us to determine that, right?
One of the categories is “not in audit” which represents people who were not in a DCPS or PCS school the prior year (for backward looking analysis) or the next year (for forward looking). So you can get a sense of how many people at a school came or left either from/to private schools or outside DC.
I don't think you can make the case that charters are not counseling kids out based solely on Quantitative data. You definitely need to look at subgroups. Truthfully, all of the schools counsel kids out and as you said neighborhood schools bear the brunt. Admission schools counsel "hard" kids out, neighborhood schools counsel "hard" out of boundary kids out. The design of our school accountability systems encourages that behavior and our neighborhood school system gives them an out. Maybe we need a program like OSSE has for special Ed where the school has to explain/prove why they can't serve the student and OSSE needs to say whether that is true.
Yes, I definitely would like to do this analysis with subgroups. The OSSE data doesn’t tell us mid-year mobility by subgroup but it does have re-enrollment by subgroup; I’d like to dig into that and see what I can figure out.
I'd be interested to know if there is a connection between school Tier (aka performance) and students leaving mid-year. Also, it looks like the most-left school was Friendship Online, which isn't necessarily surprising, since I have heard that they work with a lot of homeschool and military families. Not sure if that is actually the case.
Is it theoretically possible that 100% of the students leaving the schools are leaving the district and 100% of the students entering the schools are moving to the district? The data you have access to doesn't allow us to determine that, right?
We do have other data that lets us know that - the Enrollment Pathway data I talk about here: https://dcschools.info/p/feeder-fact-fun-forthwith
One of the categories is “not in audit” which represents people who were not in a DCPS or PCS school the prior year (for backward looking analysis) or the next year (for forward looking). So you can get a sense of how many people at a school came or left either from/to private schools or outside DC.
I don't think you can make the case that charters are not counseling kids out based solely on Quantitative data. You definitely need to look at subgroups. Truthfully, all of the schools counsel kids out and as you said neighborhood schools bear the brunt. Admission schools counsel "hard" kids out, neighborhood schools counsel "hard" out of boundary kids out. The design of our school accountability systems encourages that behavior and our neighborhood school system gives them an out. Maybe we need a program like OSSE has for special Ed where the school has to explain/prove why they can't serve the student and OSSE needs to say whether that is true.
Yes, I definitely would like to do this analysis with subgroups. The OSSE data doesn’t tell us mid-year mobility by subgroup but it does have re-enrollment by subgroup; I’d like to dig into that and see what I can figure out.
I'd be interested to know if there is a connection between school Tier (aka performance) and students leaving mid-year. Also, it looks like the most-left school was Friendship Online, which isn't necessarily surprising, since I have heard that they work with a lot of homeschool and military families. Not sure if that is actually the case.