Missing kids: Exploring the pandemic plunge in public school enrollment through homeschooling, private school and population change data.
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This project is a collaboration between Stanford University, Big Local News and the Associated Press. We worked together to answer the question: “What happened to the kids who left public school during the pandemic?”
- To answer this question, we collected data at the state level for all public schools, private schools in 35 states and homeschooling in 33 states. There were eight additional states that had incomplete private or homeschool data, where some years were missing or a significant part of the student population was not included.
- The enrollment data covers three school years: 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22. We also provide census population estimates for the school-age population in each state. The summary file has data aggregated for each state and includes our “missing kids” analysis. The detailed files breakdown data by grade or age, where available. More details about each data set with important notes, caveats and sourcing, can be found in the Readme file.
- Our analysis found that in the 21 states plus D.C. with available data, homeschool enrollment grew by 30 percent and private-school enrollment by 4 percent. Taken together, the increase in nonpublic enrollment explains about 40 percent of the public-school enrollment loss. Decreases in the school-age population account for another 26 percent. That leaves about a third of the public-school decline as unexplained -- students who may be skipping kindergarten, in unregistered homeschooling, truant, etc.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Place | Stanford (Calif.) |
| Publisher | Big Local News |
| Date created | 2022 |
| Publication date | 2023 |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Creator | Big Local News | |
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| Publisher | Associated Press | |
| Author | Dee, Thomas S | |
| Author | Lurye, Sharon | |
| Contributor | Casado Sánchez, Irene | |
| Contributor | Mayo, Justin | |
| Contributor | Melia, Michael | |
| Contributor | Myers, Justin | |
| Contributor | Thompson, Carolyn E |
Subjects
| Subject | Associated Press |
|---|---|
| Subject | Big Local News |
| Subject | Education |
| Subject | Public schools |
| Subject | Private schools |
| Subject | Home schooling |
| Subject | Government |
| Subject | 2019-2021 |
| Genre | Dataset |
| Genre | Tables (data) |
Bibliographic information
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| Files |
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| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/sb152xr1685 |
| Repository | Stanford Digital Repository |
Access conditions
- Use and reproduction
- User agrees that, where applicable, content will not be used to infringe the privacy or confidentiality rights of individuals. Content distributed via the Stanford Digital Repository may be subject to additional license and use restrictions applied by the depositor.
- License
- This work is licensed under an Open Data Commons Attribution License v1.0.
Preferred citation
- Preferred citation
- Big Local News et al. (2023) Missing kids: Exploring the pandemic plunge in public school enrollment through homeschooling, private school and population change data.. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/sb152xr1685
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