MCYC: An Elementary School Attendance Story

Essential Question:
What are the key factors contributing to attendance in elementary school?

A data story for and with the Providence Mayor's Children and Youth Cabinet. The primary goal of the story is to understand factors affecting attendance in elementary school. Our focus school is Bailey Elementary.

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Above is a scatterplot displaying the correlation between chronic absenteeism and poverty (as measured by the % of students in each school receiving free or reduced lunch). Schools with high percentages of students in poverty also tend to have higher rates of chronic absenteeism.

Each point represents an elementary school. Bailey is once again represented by the dark purple point.


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