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Fetch ESSA Chronic Absenteeism data

Source: R/fetch_assessment.R
fetch_essa_chronic_absenteeism.Rd

Downloads and processes chronic absenteeism data from ESSA Accountability Workbooks. Data shows attendance rates by student subgroup; chronic absenteeism rate = 100 - attendance rate.

Usage

fetch_essa_chronic_absenteeism(end_year)

Arguments

end_year

A school year. Valid values are 2017-2019 and 2022-2024.

Value

Processed chronic absenteeism dataframe with columns including:

  • county_id, district_id, school_id, configuration

  • Attendance rates by student subgroup (asian, black, hispanic, etc.)

  • total_attendance_rate, total_chronic_absenteeism_rate

Details

Note: This data is from ESSA accountability workbooks and covers schools included in ESSA accountability calculations (approximately 2,300+ schools). Data for 2020-2021 is not available due to COVID-19 pandemic disruptions.

For chronic absenteeism data from SPR databases (2017-2024), use fetch_chronic_absenteeism instead.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# Get 2024 chronic absenteeism data from ESSA workbooks
ca_2024 <- fetch_essa_chronic_absenteeism(2024)

# Calculate chronic absenteeism rates
ca_2024$chronic_absent_black <- 100 - ca_2024$attendance_black
} # }