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Attendance data from the Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE). The original CSV data files downloaded from MSDE are available in the data-raw/extdata folder on the GitHub repo for the package. Any percent variables with a value of 95 percent should be interpreted as equivalent at or above 95 percent. Any percent variables with a value of 5 percent should be interpreted as equivalent to at or below 5 percent. Chronic absenteeism data is not available prior to 2018 when the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (passed in 2015) went into effect and Maryland began to include the chronic absenteeism rate in the state's annual academic report cards. Variable definitions are based on the definitions from the MSDE website.

Usage

msde_attendance

Format

A data frame with 33,376 rows and 18 variables:

year

School year or academic year, e.g. 2019 for 2019-2020 school year

school_number

School number (0 indicates all schools)

school_name

School name

grade_range

Grade range used for attendance details.

attend_rate_pct

Attendance rate as defined as the average daily attendance rate of students in the school and grade band, including special education students

days_attended_count

Total number of students in attendance from the first day of school through April 13th

days_member_count

Total number of students registered to attend from the first day of school through April 13th

fewer_5_pct

Percent of students absentee rate is the percentage of students absent from school for five or fewer days between the first day of the school year and the last day of the school year

fewer_5_count

Count of students absentee rate is the percentage of students absent from school for five or fewer days between the first day of the school year and the last day of the school year

more_20_pct

Percent of students absentee rate is the percentage of students absent from school for twenty or more days between the first day of the school year and the last day of the school year

more_20_count

Number of students absentee rate is the percentage of students absent from school for twenty or more days between the first day of the school year and the last day of the school year

more_90_member_count

Number of students with an attendance rate of 90 percent or more

chronic_absentee_count

Number of students expected to attend school for at least 10 days who were absent 10 percent or more of the school days while enrolled at that school

chronic_absentee_denom

Number of students who are expected to attend school for at least 10 days in the school year

chronic_absentee_pct

Chronic absenteeism rate as defined as the percent of students expected to attend school for at least 10 days who were absent 10 percent or more of the school days while enrolled at that school

date_created

Date record created.

lss_number

Local school system (LSS) number as integer. NA is used in place of a LSS number for statewide data. Older LEA numbers are combined with LSS numbers in this dataset.

lss_name

Local school system (LSS) names (typically same as county name). "State" is used in place of a LSS name for statewide data. Older LEA names are combined with LSS names in this dataset.