Enrollment counts by grade for non-public schools in Massachusetts, spanning from the 2002 school year onward. The data is published by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) and is sourced from their official profiles site. It provides annual figures for individual schools and districts.
Use Cases
- Analyze trends in non-public school enrollment over time using the SY (school year) and grade-specific count columns (e.g., G09_CNT, GK_CNT).
- Compare enrollment distributions across different grade levels within a school using columns from GPK_CNT to G12_CNT.
- Aggregate total enrollment for districts by summing GRD_TOTAL_CNT across schools, filtered by DIST_CODE or DIST_NAME.
- Identify schools with significant special education populations by examining the GRD_SP_CNT column relative to GRD_TOTAL_CNT.
- Map the geographic distribution of non-public school attendance by linking ORG_CODE or DIST_CODE to external spatial data.
Strengths
- Contains over 20 years of historical data, starting from the 2002 school year (SY).
- Includes 22 columns providing detailed breakdowns by grade, school, and district.
Limitations
- The exact number of rows (schools) and total record count is unknown.
- Data is limited to the state of Massachusetts, which may not be representative of other regions.
Provenance
- Source
- Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE).
- Collection Method
- Collected through official state reporting mechanisms for non-public schools.
- Time Range
- From school year 2002 onward.
- Freshness
- Updated as of March 2026, indicating recent maintenance.
- Geography
- State of Massachusetts, USA.