Displaced students changed schools a second time at roughly twice the rate of comparison students during the first year and the following summer¶

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Subclaims¶

q3 i? During their first year in a new school, nearly 11 percent of displaced students changed schools versus 5 percent of comparison students; the next summer, 30 percent versus 14 percent changed schools. → Marisa de la Torre 2009

Evidence¶

Marisa de la Torre 2009¶

Marisa de la Torre, Julia Gwynne. (2009). When Schools Close: Effects on Displaced Students in Chicago Public Schools. Consortium on Chicago School Research, University of Chicago Urban Education Institute. https://consortium.uchicago.edu/publications/when-schools-close-effects-displaced-students-chicago-public-schools

q3 · i? · causal · r2

Mobility analysis comparing displaced and matched comparison students (Figures 4 and 5): school-year moves 10.8%** vs 4.9% (p < 0.01) and summer moves 30.4%** vs 13.6% (p < 0.01); prior to closing, displaced students had lower school-year mobility (6.8% vs 8.1%).

"during their first year in a new school, they were twice as likely to change schools as the comparison group: nearly 11 percent of displaced students changed schools, while only 5 percent of students in the comparison group with similar characteristics did so"

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Displaced students were less likely to enroll in Summer Bridge the summer after their schools closed — related
• Proximity and relocation into the closed school building strongly predicted enrollment in designated welcoming schools — 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
• Welcoming-school students whose schools relocated into closed-school buildings transferred out at higher rates in the merger year; closures did not affect mobility in later years — related
• Welcoming-school students transferred out at higher-than-expected rates just before the merger, driven exclusively by the 14 welcoming schools that had to relocate into closed-school buildings — related