Kindergarten placement for 2017-18, data from the San Francisco Unified School District, used in analysis of kindergarten lottery by KQED.
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
Kindergarten placement for 2017-18, raw data from the San Francisco Unified School District, used in analysis of kindergarten lottery by KQED. The public school assignment process in San Francisco can be an overwhelming experience for parents. To get their child into kindergarten, they enter a lottery system that blends parental choice with a secret algorithm designed to achieve a more equal mix of students at each school.
KQED News analyzed how those parental choices impacted school assignment and enrollment, using anonymized data provided by the San Francisco Unified School District. KQED reporters talked to parents and the school district to find out how they approach the lottery, and then tested those assumptions.
Caveat for analysis: There are students that entered the lottery late. The school that those students enroll in becomes their first choice in the data, according to the San Francisco Unified School District. KQED excluded them from its analysis on first choice, top five and top 10 chances by removing blanks or nulls in the Round 1 Assignment field. Other things to look for in parental choices include listing duplicate schools or non-existent or non-public schools. Use the School Codes sheet in the raw data provided by the school district to see what school numbers are valid.
Files include:
Excel spread sheet of the data.
Text file of Jupyter Notebook using the Python language as of 11Jan2018 from GitHub,
HTML file of Python notebook code as of 11Jan2018 from GitHub.
GitHub link is https://github.com/pickoffwhite/San-Francisco-Kindergarten-Lottery.
The commit number for these snapshots is 8a6fced.
This is a snapshot of the analysis as of 11Jan2018.
Description
| Type of resource | software, multimedia |
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| Date created | 2017 - 2018 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | White-Pickoff, Lisa |
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Subjects
| Subject | School lottery |
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| Subject | San Francisco |
| Subject | Kindergarten |
| Subject | Big Local News |
| Subject | KQED |
| Subject | Public radio |
| Subject | placement of students in schools |
| Genre | Dataset |
Bibliographic information
| Related Publication | Pickoff-White, Lisa. 2018. “S.F.’s Kindergarten Lottery: Do Parents’ Tricks Work?” KQED. January 10, 2018. https://www.kqed.org/news/11641019/s-f-s-kindergarten-lottery-do-parents-tricks-work. |
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| Related Publication | Schwartz, Katrina. 2018. “How the San Francisco School Lottery Works, And How It Doesn’t.” KQED. January 11, 2018. https://www.kqed.org/news/11641238/how-the-san-francisco-school-lottery-works-and-how-it-doesnt-2. |
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| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/gx324mp7150 |
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- White-Pickoff, Lisa. (2017). Kindergarten placement for 2017-18, data from the San Francisco Unified School District, used in analysis of kindergarten lottery by KQED. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/gx324mp7150
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