NYC Parks Swim For Life Program Attendance 2022 Onwards

2022 to present data tracks the NYC Parks Swim For Life program, an instructional swimming initiative for second-grade public school students. The dataset contains location and attendance information for the program, which runs annually from October to June. Program operations were paused due to the COVID-19 pandemic and resumed in Spring 2022.

Use Cases

• Analyze attendance patterns across different program locations to identify high-participation sites.
• Map program locations to assess geographic distribution and accessibility for NYC public schools.
• Track seasonal attendance trends from October to June to understand program engagement throughout the school year.
• Study the resumption of program data from Spring 2022 to measure post-pandemic recovery and participation.

Strengths

• Data covers the program from its 2022 resumption to the present, providing a current view.
• Information is provided by the City of New York, an authoritative source for municipal programs.
• Data is available in multiple machine-readable formats including CSV, JSON, RDF, and XML.

Limitations

• The specific number of rows, columns, and data volume is unknown, limiting assessment of scale.
• Data from 2016 to 2020 is stored in a separate, older dataset, complicating longitudinal analysis.
• Column names and a detailed data schema are not provided in the input, requiring external review of the data dictionary.

Provenance

Source

City of New York

Collection Method

Collected from the NYC Parks Swim For Life instructional program.

Time Range

2022 to present

Freshness

Data was last updated on March 22, 2026, indicating recent maintenance.

Geography

New York City, United States