NEWS.md

In almartin82/njschooldata: a simple interface for accessing NJ DOE school data in R

njschooldata 0.8.19

New features

get_school_directory and get_district_directory updated to reflect new NJDOE pages / format.

njschooldata 0.8.18

New features

fetch_enr supports 2023 data.

njschooldata 0.8.17

Bugfixes

• More explicit namespace prefixes for functions
• Moved some dependencies to imports

njschooldata 0.8.16

New features

get_district_directory() and get_school_directory() read in metadata about schools and districts (eg, NCES ids!)

njschooldata 0.8.15

New features

fetch_enr supports 2022 data. several bugfixes for older years.

njschooldata 0.8.14

New features

lookup_peer_percentile function to gauge where an aggregation falls in the distribution of measured/actual schools/districts.

njschooldata 0.8.13

New features

• postsecondary matriculation aggregations - district_matric_aggs and allpublic_matric_aggs

• bug fixes for mSGP and for njsla/parcc assessment file location changes

njschooldata 0.8.12

New features

• K12UG aggregate published - K12 w/ ungraded students.

njschooldata 0.8.11

New features

• ward_grate_aggs() and ward_gcount_aggs() calculate grad rate and grad count for supported ward geographies

njschooldata 0.8.10

New features

• charter_sector_spec_pop_aggs() and allpublic_spec_pop_aggs() calculate sector wide special population aggregations
• charter_sector_sped_aggs() and allpublic_sped_aggs() calculate sector-wide SPED aggregations
• extract_rc_enrollment() extracts and cleans spring enrollment data from report card databases
• fetch_enr now also returns the count and percentage of free or reduced lunch students

njschooldata 0.8.9

New features

• ward_parcc_aggs() aggregates PARCC data for city ward / neighborhood geographies (currently supported: Newark)

njschooldata 0.8.8

New features

• fetch_grad_rate() and fetch_grad_count() support 2019 data

njschooldata 0.8.7

New features

• fetch_msgp() supports 2019 data

• msgp data supports new subgroups: female, male, homeless, foster care, military-connected, migrant

njschooldata 0.8.6

New features

• get_reportcard_special_pop() supports 2019 data

njschooldata 0.8.3

New features

• fetch_parcc() supports 2019 NJSLA data

njschooldata 0.8.2

New features

• enrich_school_latlong() will add the address and latitude / longitude of a school

• enrich_school_city_ward() will return the relevant administrative subdivision of a school for supported cities. Currently supported: Newark

• enrich_school_city_neighborhood() will return the relevant neighborhood subdivision for supported cities. Currently supported: Newark

njschooldata 0.8.1

New features

• fetch_msgp() reads msgp data from report card files.

• fetch_reportcard_special_pop()

njschooldata 0.8.0

New features

• Method for combining school/district Report Card data.

• PARCC Percentile Rank functions are more thoroughly tested, with some errors corrected.

njschooldata 0.7.9

New features

• Grad Count data (fetch_grad_count) from 1999-present.
• Grad rate and count charter sector and all public aggregations.

njschooldata 0.7.8

New features

• fetch_grate takes a calc type argument, and will return 5 year cohort grad rates for 2012-present.

njschooldata 0.7.7

New features

• statewide_peer_percentile will calculate PARCC scale and proficiency percentile rank across NJ.
• dfg_peer_percentile will calculate PARCC scale and proficiency percentile rank across NJ.

njschooldata 0.7.6

New features

• charter_sector_parcc_aggs will calculate PARCC composites for city charter sectors.
• allpublic_parcc_aggs will calculate PARCC composites across city and charter schools.

Breaking changes

• PARCC functions now return _id (ie district_id, school_id) instead of _code. This closes #65 and makes school/district identifiers consistent across enrollment and PARCC assessment files.

• parcc_aggregate_calcs expects a field called is_charter.

njschooldata 0.7.5

New features

• enr_grade_aggs will calculate some common grade level aggregations.
• Any K (half + full day K)
• K-12 enrollment (exclude pre-k)
• K-8 enrollment
• HS

njschooldata 0.7.4

New features

• friendly_district_names will make a legibile vector of unique district names, one per district_id.
• district_name_to_id reverses it, giving ids from names.

njschooldata 0.7.3

New features

• can calculate aggregates of all public school options in a given city with allpublic_enr_aggs().

njschooldata 0.7.2

New features

• older (largely closed) charter schools added to charter_city table to allow for accurate calculations of longitudinal charter sector statistics.

njschooldata 0.7.1

New features

• can calculate charter sector (eg, charters in Jersey City) enrollment stats using charter_sector_enr_aggs()

njschooldata 0.7.0

New features

• can pass tidy = TRUE argument to fetch_enr() to get subgroups tidied
• fetch enr aggregates gender subgroups into racial subgroups (white_m + white_f = white)

njschooldata 0.6.1

New features

• ability to standardize / clean / label Taxpayers Guide data with tidy_tges_data()

njschooldata 0.6

New features

• ability to read in Taxpayers Guide to Educational Spending data files with get_raw_tges(2016) and fetch_tges(2017)

njschooldata 0.5.2

New features

• ability to read in Federal ESSA (Every Student Succeeds Act) accountability data files with get_essa_file(2017).

njschooldata 0.5.1

New features

• extensions of NJ School Report Card functions with extract_rc_college_matric() and extract_rc_AP().
• ability to put county/district/school names onto longitudinal report card data sets.

njschooldata 0.5

New features

• support for for PARCC data via the fetch_parcc() family of functions.
• support for NJ School Report Card / Performance Report data via the get_rc_databases() function
• ability to read longitudinal NJ Report Card SAT data via extract_pr_SAT()

njschooldata 0.4

New features

• support for HS graduation data via the fetch_grate() family of functions

njschooldata 0.3

New features

• a tidy = TRUE argument to fetch_nj_assess that converts the wide data files to long, enabling easier longitudinal analysis

Bug fixes

• resolved various file layout errors and problems (that were silently dropping data when fixed-width files were read in!)

njschooldata 0.2

New features

• support for enrollment data

njschooldata 0.1

New features

• support for NJASK and other assessment data

almartin82/njschooldata documentation built on Nov. 23, 2023, 1:33 a.m.