Daily Student Attendance Counts for New York City Schools

Daily listing of student attendance counts for New York City schools, provided by the City of New York. The data includes counts of students registered, present, absent, and released, organized by School DBN.

Use Cases

• Analyze absenteeism trends by School DBN to identify patterns in student attendance.
• Correlate daily counts of students present with released counts to study early dismissal impacts.
• Track registered student population changes over time using the daily counts per school.

Strengths

• Data is provided by the City of New York, an authoritative government organization.
• Covers daily granularity for detailed temporal analysis of school operations.
• Includes multiple attendance statuses (registered, present, absent, released) for each school.

Limitations

• The specific number of rows, columns, and data size are unknown, limiting assessment of scale.
• Sample data is unavailable, preventing verification of data structure and quality before download.
• Data format includes XML and RDF, which may require specialized parsing tools compared to CSV.

Provenance

Source

City of New York

Time Range

2018-2019

Freshness

Last updated on 2024-11-29.

Geography

New York City schools