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Fetch AP/IB Participation and Performance Data

Source: R/fetch_college_career.R
fetch_ap_participation.Rd

Downloads and extracts Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) coursework participation and exam performance from the SPR database.

Usage

fetch_ap_participation(end_year, level = "school")

Arguments

end_year

A school year (2017-2024). Year is the end of the academic year - eg 2020-21 school year is end_year '2021'.

level

One of "school" or "district". "school" returns school-level data, "district" returns district and state-level data.

Value

Data frame with AP/IB participation and performance including:

  • end_year, county_id, county_name, district_id, district_name

  • school_id, school_name (for school-level data)

  • apib_coursework_school - Percentage students in AP/IB coursework

  • apib_coursework_state - State percentage in AP/IB coursework

  • apib_exam_school - Percentage taking AP/IB exams

  • apib_exam_state - State percentage taking AP/IB exams

  • ap3_ib4_school - Percentage scoring AP 3+ or IB 4+

  • ap3_ib4_state - State percentage scoring AP 3+ or IB 4+

  • dual_enrollment_school - Dual enrollment participation

  • dual_enrollment_state - State dual enrollment percentage

  • Aggregation flags (is_state, is_county, is_district, is_school, is_charter)

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# Get 2024 AP/IB data
apib <- fetch_ap_participation(2024)

# Compare exam participation vs performance
apib %>%
  select(school_name, apib_exam_school, ap3_ib4_school)
} # }