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Fetch Chronic Absenteeism Data

Source: R/fetch_spr.R
fetch_chronic_absenteeism.Rd

Downloads and extracts chronic absenteeism data from the SPR database. Chronic absenteeism is defined as missing 10

Usage

fetch_chronic_absenteeism(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 chronic absenteeism rates including:

  • end_year, county_id, county_name, district_id, district_name

  • school_id, school_name (for school-level data)

  • subgroup - Student group (total population, racial/ethnic groups, etc.)

  • chronically_absent_rate - Percentage chronically absent (0-100)

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

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# Get school-level chronic absenteeism
ca <- fetch_chronic_absenteeism(2024)

# Get district-level data
ca_dist <- fetch_chronic_absenteeism(2024, level = "district")

# Filter for specific schools
newark_ca <- ca %>%
  filter(district_id == "3570") %>%
  filter(subgroup == "total population")
} # }