New York City School Attendance and Absenteeism Data, 2013-2019
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Description
2013-2019 attendance and chronic absenteeism data for New York City schools, aggregated at the city, borough, district, and individual school levels. The dataset is hosted on the NYC Open Data platform (data.cityofnewyork.us) and was last updated in November 2025. It includes counts and percentages for days present, absent, and chronic absenteeism, broken down by grade and demographic categories.
Use Cases
Analyzing trends in % Chronically Absent and % Attendance over Year and across Boroughs to identify district-level patterns.
Comparing # Days Present and # Days Absent by Demographic Category and Grade to assess equity in attendance outcomes.
Modeling the relationship between # Chronically Absent and other school-level variables like District and Report Type.
Strengths
Data spans 7 years (2013-2019), providing a multi-year trend analysis window.
Includes granular breakdowns by School Name, Borough, District, Grade, and Demographic Category.
Offers multiple file formats (CSV, JSON, XML, RDF) for accessibility.
Limitations
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Provenance
Source
data.cityofnewyork.us
Time Range
2013-2019
Freshness
Last updated 2025-11-19 15:54:32; freshness should be verified.
Geography
New York City, New York, USA
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