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¶

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Evidence · 1 study · associational r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2009 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 2012: local conditions change quickly

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Most elementary transfers occur from one CPS school to another CPS school, and the decline in these within-district moves largely explains the falling school-year in-mobility rate. → 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

q2 · i? · associational · r2

Descriptive analysis of CPS transfer destinations and origins in Chapter 1, disaggregated in Figures 2A-2D. The report finds within-district moves are "between 50 and 60 percent of the total transfers into schools" during the school year and two-thirds during the summer.

"During the school year, these types of moves represent between 50 and 60 percent of the total transfers into schools (Figures 2A and 2B); during the summer, they represent two-thirds of all transfers"

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• 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 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 — related
• Residential mobility is closely associated with elementary school transfers in CPS, with nearly 80 percent of mid-year within-district transfers accompanied by a residential move — related
• 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
• 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
• The study design separately examined recent-year moves and cumulative moves across elementary school in relation to child functioning — related
• School mobility, especially frequent within-year moves, slows instructional pacing in schools with many mobile students — related
• School mobility during elementary school did not appear to be a pervasive risk for children's functioning, though very high mobility rates could not be studied — related