New data sources

[jonmgeiger]

Let's use this as a place to provide new data that we want to pull in. Include a link to the data, as well as a short description of what it adds to the current data.

[noelgoodwin]

NCES has data on the racial and ethnic enrollment in each district along with the county each district is in. I generated a table with the data we need and can start cleaning it up so we can easily join it to our current dataset. https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/elsi/tableGenerator.aspx

[noelgoodwin]

Here is the data and the corresponding data dictionary that includes the racial and ethnic estimates of the student body between 2014-18 in each school district (including the MOE). Race and Ethnic Data Race and Ethnic Data Dictionary

Here is a link to the source (NCES's Education Demographic and Geographic Estimates) https://nces.ed.gov/programs/edge/Demographic/ACS

[jonmgeiger]

Trying to find:

• [ ] Graduation/Completion rates of school districts in the U.S.

[jonmgeiger]

@joppaa @noelgoodwin Here's the R package from urban institute, which includes graduation rates for school districts: