Student Attrition

This dataset provides the percentage of attrition by grade from the end of one school year to the beginning of the next for students in Massachusetts public schools since 2010. The information is as of October 1 of the given school year.

A value of zero indicates that there was no attrition in that grade for the year and student group selected. A blank value indicates that either:

<ul><li>The school or district is new in the year selected</li><li>The school or district has no students enrolled in that grade level in the year selected</li><li>The school or district has no grade in the given year for students from the previous year to advance</li><li>The data is suppressed because the enrollment total is less than 6</li></ul>Economically Disadvantaged was used 2015-2021. Low Income was used prior to 2015, and a different version of Low Income has been used since 2022. Please see the <a href="https://www.doe.mass.edu/research/researchers.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">DESE Researcher's Guide</a> for more information.

This dataset contains the same data that is also published on our DESE Profiles site:

<a href="https://profiles.doe.mass.edu/statereport/attrition.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Attrition</a>

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/student-attrition-4as3-w39x\".\"student_attrition\"
    LIMIT 100 
"}
EOF

See the Splitgraph documentation for more information.