To better understand who is choosing to attend public schools in New Orleans, it would be useful for the public to examine changes in economically disadvantaged populations in public schools and grade levels by school type over time. By the 2012-13 school year, the LDOE removed data that was once on its website years prior, eliminated parish location, and modified or suppressed data on race/ethnicity, free/reduced lunch, grade placement, and limited English proficiency. However, after the 2010-2011 school year, retrieving data from the Louisiana Department of Education became increasingly difficult. The Data Center, subsequently, recommended that the LDOE add parish location for each school to its downloadable spreadsheet, which they did-demonstrating the high priority they placed on making available usable data for the public. The Data Center had to spend time carefully identifying which Recovery School District schools were in Orleans versus other parishes, in order to tabulate the total number of New Orleans students in public schools each year-an important indicator of our post-Katrina population recovery. Years before Katrina, The Data Center (then known as the Greater New Orleans Community Data Center) was able to publish enrollment and demographic data on public school students from the Department of Education’s annual District Composite Reports, which were freely available on their web site in PDF format.Īfter Katrina, the Department of Education began making this same data freely available in downloadable spreadsheets. In Louisiana, we have been fortunate that the Louisiana Department of Education (LDOE) has a long history of making available high quality data on enrollment, demographic characteristics of students, and school performance scores, among other metrics. The depth and breadth of all Data Center reports are dependent upon access to reliable data.
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