Washington State Teacher Qualifications by School Poverty Quartile

Report Card data from Washington State's Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction details teacher qualification metrics across schools grouped by their low-income student population quartiles. The dataset spans school years from 2017-18 to 2024-25 and is disaggregated at the state, Educational Service District, Local Education Agency, and individual school levels. It includes counts and percentages of teachers by qualification type, linked to school poverty status and administrative identifiers.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the relationship between school poverty quartiles and teacher qualification rates using `PovertyQuartile` and `TeacherPercent`.
• Tracking changes in educator workforce composition over time by `SchoolYear` and `QualificationName`.
• Comparing teacher qualification metrics across different administrative levels like `ESDName`, `LEAName`, or `SchoolName`.
• Investigating data validation status for equity reporting using the `IsEEValidated` flag.

Strengths

• Provides a seven-year longitudinal view, covering school years 2017-18 through 2024-25.
• Offers granular, multi-level geographic disaggregation from state down to individual schools.
• Includes explicit validation indicators (`IsEEValidated`) for data quality assessment.

Limitations

• Key metadata such as row count, file size, license, and author are consistently missing across all platform entries.
• The 'last updated' date of 2026-01-27 appears to be a future or placeholder date, casting doubt on temporal accuracy.

Provenance

Source

Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI), published via data.wa.gov.

Collection Method

Likely collected through state-mandated education reporting systems.

Time Range

School years 2017-18 through 2024-25.

Freshness

2026-01-27 21:56:15 (Note: This is a future date, which may indicate a metadata error.)

Geography

Washington State, USA, with breakdowns by county, Educational Service District, and school district.