Description: Average annual improvement in English Language Arts
Additional notes:
This metric captures the impact or quality of the schools children attend, using nationally standardized state assessments for English Language Arts, which includes reading comprehension and written expression. It reports the average per year improvement among public and charter school students between third and eighth grade. Assessments are normalized so that typical learning growth is roughly one grade level a year. Values above 1 indicate an above-average rate of learning, and values below 1 indicate a below-average rate of learning.
Years Available: 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
Variable type: number_decimal_hundreths
Files: 11_mobility-metrics_county_longitudinal.csv
12_mobility-metrics_county_race-ethnicity_longitudinal.csv
14_mobility-metrics_county_income_longitudinal.csv
16_mobility-metrics_county_gender_longitudinal.csv
61_mobility-metrics_place_longitudinal.csv
62_mobility-metrics_place_race-ethnicity_longitudinal.csv
64_mobility-metrics_place_income_longitudinal.csv
66_mobility-metrics_place_gender_longitudinal.csv