flschooldata: Fetch and Process Florida School Data

Downloads and processes school data from the Florida Department of Education (FLDOE). Provides functions for fetching enrollment data including membership by school, grade, and race/ethnicity, and transforming it into tidy format for analysis.

Main functions

fetch_enr

Fetch enrollment data for a school year

fetch_enr_multi

Fetch enrollment data for multiple years

tidy_enr

Transform wide data to tidy (long) format

id_enr_aggs

Add aggregation level flags

enr_grade_aggs

Create grade-level aggregations

Cache functions

cache_status

View cached data files

clear_cache

Remove cached data files

ID System

Florida uses a county-based district system with:

• District Codes: 2 digits (01-67 for counties, 71-75 for special districts)

• School Numbers: 4 digits (0001-9899 for regular schools)

• Combined ID: District code + School number (e.g., "13-0021" for Miami-Dade)

Data Sources

Data is sourced from the Florida Department of Education:

• Students Data: https://www.fldoe.org/accountability/data-sys/edu-info-accountability-services/pk-12-public-school-data-pubs-reports/students.stml

• FTE History: https://www.fldoe.org/finance/fl-edu-finance-program-fefp/fte-info/student-enrollment.stml

• Master School ID: https://eds.fldoe.org/EDS/MasterSchoolID/

Data Availability

• Membership by Grade/Race: 2014-present (current format)

• FTE Enrollment: 2008-present (Excel format)

• Historical archive data goes back further but format varies

See also

Useful links:

• https://almartin82.github.io/flschooldata

• https://github.com/almartin82/flschooldata

• Report bugs at https://github.com/almartin82/flschooldata/issues

Author

Maintainer: Al Martin almartin@example.com