Student Mobility Rate

This dataset contains provides data on student mobility since 2008. Mobility is defined as those students transferring into or out of public schools, districts, or the state. Mobility rates are not reported for enrollments of fewer than 6.

Intake rate measures the number of students that enroll in the state, a district, or school after the beginning of the school year. Churn rate measures the number students transferring into or out of a public school or district throughout the course of a school year. Stability rate measures how many students remain in a district or school throughout the school year. For further details and explanations see Information Service's <a href="http://www.doe.mass.edu/infoservices/reports/mobility" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Mobility Rates page</a>.

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/mobilityrates.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Mobility Rate Report</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-mobility-rate-5jqj-jcbt\".\"student_mobility_rate\"
    LIMIT 100 
"}
EOF

See the Splitgraph documentation for more information.