2008-09 Class Size - School-level Detail

6wcu-cfa3Education15 columns

This file shows average class sizes and size of smallest and largest class for each school, broken out by grade and program type (General Education, Self-Contained Special Education, Collaborative Team Teaching (CTT)) for grades K-9 (where grade 9 is not reported by subject area), and for grades 5-9 (where available) and 9-12, aggregated by program type (General Education, CTT, and Self-Contained Special Education) and core course (e.g. English 9, Math A, US History, etc.). Official class size data for grades K-9* is based on October 31, 2008 Audited Registers; Core course class size data for MS CORE and grades 9-12 is based on January 23, 2009 active registers. *Where ninth grade data is not reported by core course - For middle schools using MSPA (ATS) or HSST to program, average class size is reported by core course, as well as by official class. - For high schools, sections with matching day, period, room and core subject, and combined enrollment less than 34 are assumed to be co-teaching situations. In the report, duplicated sections are subtracted as "MATCHED SECTIONS" and paired sections are added back as "ASSUMED TEAM TEACHING".

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Quality

B83.9 / 100

From a 500-row sample across 15 columns.

completeness100/ 25% weight

consistency80/ 20% weight

accuracy97/ 20% weight

timeliness38/ 15% weight

usability90/ 20% weight

· No obvious temporal column — limits time-series joins
· Has geographic keys — joinable to other NYC datasets

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Geography

Has borough codes (`boro`) — joinable, but needs boundary shapes to draw.

Sample rows

boro	csd	school_code	school_name	grade_	program_type	core_subject_ms_core_and_9_12_only_	core_course_ms_core_and_9_12_only_	service_category_k_9_only_	number_of_classes	total_register	average_class_size
M	1	M015	P.S. 015 ROBERTO CLEMENTE	0K	GEN ED	-	-	-	1	18	18.0
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Columns

15 queryable · 15 profiled

The machine field names SoQL needs, with the publisher's own description of each.

Field	Type	Description	Null	Values
`boro`	categorical	—	0%	`KXQ`of 5
`csd`	integer	—	0%	`21031`
`school_code`	text	—	0%	`Q450K445M520`
`school_name`	text	—	0%	`LONG ISLAND CITY HIGH SC…NEW UTRECHT HIGH SCHOOLRICHMOND HILL HIGH SCHOO…`
`grade_`	categorical

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