New York City's public school system provides daily counts of student enrollment, attendance, and absences from 2018 to 2021. The dataset, published by data.cityofnewyork.us, includes daily records aggregated by school and district. It was last updated in November 2024.
Use Cases
- Analyze seasonal trends in absenteeism by plotting Absent counts against the Date column.
- Calculate school-level attendance rates by dividing Present by Enrolled for each School DBN.
- Compare attendance patterns across boroughs by aggregating Absent and Present data.
- Investigate the impact of specific dates or events on Released student counts.
Strengths
- Covers four consecutive school years from 2018 to 2021.
- Provides daily granularity for temporal analysis.
- Includes data disaggregated by school (School DBN) and borough.
Limitations
- Unknown total row count prevents assessment of dataset scale.
- Lacks demographic or grade-level breakdowns for deeper analysis.
- Data ends in 2021, limiting analysis of recent post-pandemic trends.
Provenance
- Source
- data.cityofnewyork.us
- Collection Method
- Administrative records from the New York City public school system.
- Time Range
- 2018 to 2021
- Freshness
- Last updated in November 2024, but data coverage ends in 2021.
- Geography
- New York City, USA (by borough and school district)