Elementary student mobility in CPS decreased between 1995 and 2007, with school-year stability rising from 87.9 to 91.2 percent and school-year in-mobility falling from 11.4 to 7.1 percent¶

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q2 i? Elementary students became less mobile over time: school-year stability increased from 87.9 percent (fall 1994 cohort) to 91.2 percent (2006-07), and school-year in-mobility decreased from 11.4 to 7.1 percent. → Marisa de la Torre 2009

Evidence¶

Marisa de la Torre 2009¶

Marisa de la Torre, Julia Gwynne. (2009). Changing Schools: A Look at Student Mobility Trends in Chicago Public Schools Since 1995. Consortium on Chicago School Research at the University of Chicago. https://consortium.uchicago.edu/publications/changing-schools-look-student-mobility-trends-chicago-public-schools-1995

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Trend analysis of CPS student record data from 1995 to 2007 reported in Chapter 1. The report states that "87.9 percent remained in the same school throughout the school year; by 2006–07 this rate increased to 91.2 percent," and the school-year in-mobility rate dropped from 11.4 to 7.1 percent.

"of the students enrolled in the system in the fall of 1994, 87.9 percent remained in the same school throughout the school year; by 2006–07 this rate increased to 91.2 percent."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• High school stability improvements in CPS were largely driven by declining dropout rates, which fell from 7.1 percent to 3.2 percent during the school year between 1995 and 2006 — related
• African American students are the most mobile group of CPS students, and the gap between them and other students widened after 2000-01, especially at the elementary level — related
• Elementary student mobility in CPS is predominantly a within-district phenomenon, with CPS-to-CPS transfers accounting for 50-60 percent of school-year transfers and two-thirds of summer transfers — related
• School closings, new school openings, CHA demolitions, and NCLB transfers each affected fewer than 1 percent of CPS students per year, though receiving schools saw summer in-mobility rise by almost 13 percentage points — related
• Residential mobility explains 55-61 percent of the school-year race gap in mobility, school average achievement an additional 16 percent, and access to school choice options increasingly explains the summer gap — related