A History of CPS Enrollment 1999-2014 (Rough Draft)

It is difficult to do data work on CPS data.  Schools move, close, open, split, co-locate, turnaround, change names. I’m Continue reading →

The Real CPS High School Grad Rate Trend: What is it?

I caught this blog post by Lauren Fitzpatrick of the Chicago Sun Times and it made me wonder…why is the Continue reading →

How is the CPS Utilization formula like a dose of Tylenol?

This is a follow-up to the last blog post re: “seats available” at Level 1 & Level 2 CPS schools**… Continue reading →

Which Level 1 & Level 2 CPS Elementary Schools have seats?**

**According to CPS Utilization Formula. The results may surprise you. I’ve discussed before how schools that use a “once a Continue reading →

Public Datasets from CPS Apples 2 Apples

There has been a lot of great CPS school data liberated since the initial school actions announcement in the Fall. Continue reading →

Does A2A show any CPS schools as under utilized?

Yes, yes it does. It will most likely not make me very popular to point that out. But I am Continue reading →

Looking at Data: Largest Average Elem Class Sizes 2011-12

(My clever blog post title was going to be “When Is Bigger Not Always Better?”  Safer to go with the Continue reading →

Looking at Data: Distribution of IEP Students across School Types

I got a question from Illinois Raise Your Hand on Twitter yesterday.  Even though it was Sunday, I just had Continue reading →