This Portfolio Project explores whether there is correlation between student performance and the school neighborhood poverty estimates for Georgia schools for the 2017–2018 school year.
Data Sources:
U.S. Department of Education's EDFacts initiative (for State Assessment data in Mathematics (Math) and Reading/Language Arts (RLA) for 2017–2018) and the
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Education Demographic and Geographic Estimates (EDGE) program (for the School Neighborhood Poverty Estimates for 2017–18)
Math: https://www2.ed.gov/about/inits/ed/edfacts/data-files/math-achievement-sch-sy2017-18.csv
RLA: https://www2.ed.gov/about/inits/ed/edfacts/data-files/rla-achievement-sch-sy2017-18.csv
Poverty Estimates: https://opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/82561a1eb6914fa1ac7581520b97bd42_0.csv?outSR=%7B%22latestWkid%22%3A4269%2C%22wkid%22%3A4269%7D
Medium Post describing the Project, Analysis and Conclusions: https://ivan-mihailov.medium.com/correlation-between-2017-2018-georgia-school-performance-on-state-assessments-in-mathematics-and-5b03a46b057a