School Attending Children
This dataset contains the number of students attending different types of Massachusetts schools by town since 1985. It includes full-time students whose parents or legal guardians are residents of the city or town.
This report is required from each city and town under the provisions of Chapter 72, Section 2A of the General Laws. The information is as of January 1st of the given school year. A value of zero indicates that the city or town does not have any students enrolled in the specified type of school.
This dataset contains the same data that is also published on our DESE Profiles site:
<a href="https://profiles.doe.mass.edu/statereport/schoolattendingchildren.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">School Attending Children Report</a>
<b>List of School Types</b>
<ul><li>Local Public Schools</li><li>Academic Regional Schools</li><li>Vocational Technical Regional Schools</li><li>Collaboratives</li><li>Charter Schools (included since 2011)</li><li>Out-of-District Public Schools</li><li>Home Schooled (included since 2011)</li><li>In State Private and Parochial Schools</li><li>Out-of-State Private and Parochial Schools</li></ul>
Querying over HTTP
Splitgraph serves as an HTTP API that lets you run SQL queries directly on
this data to power Web applications. For example:
curl https://data.splitgraph.com/sql/query/ddn \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d@-<<EOF
{"sql": "
SELECT *
FROM \"educationtocareer-data-mass-gov/school-attending-children-rdxw-mfv3\".\"school_attending_children\"
LIMIT 100
"}
EOFSee the Splitgraph documentation
for more information.
