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Brock Hicks; Michael C. Lens – Education and Urban Society, 2025
The meteoric rise in charter schools has several implications for traditional public schools and their students. One understudied implication is the geographic competition for students. Given traditional public school boundaries are often fixed while charter school boundaries are more flexible, charter schools can draw students away from existing…
Descriptors: Enrollment, Charter Schools, Public Schools, Competition
Josh Leung-Gagné – AERA Open, 2023
Though schools do not track in Brazil, I find that racial classroom segregation in Brazil is on par with recent estimates from North Carolina high schools (Clotfelter et al., 2020). How does racial classroom segregation occur without tracking, and in a supposed "racial paradise," no less? Using national, student-level data spanning from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Grade 5, Grade 9
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Hinz, Serena E.; Lauf, Erich – National Center for Education Statistics, 2020
This Data Point examines postsecondary education enrollment rates overall and in occupational areas of study, among 2013 public high school graduates as of 2016. The report uses data from the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:2009), which initially surveyed a nationally representative sample of grade 9 students in 2009, with follow-up…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Enrollment Rate, High School Graduates, Grade 9
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Sarah R. Morris; Sarah C. McKenzie; Miranda G. Vernon – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2025
This robust mixed-methods study examines ninth-grade advanced course placement in Arkansas, revealing disparities rooted in race and socioeconomic status. Utilizing a logit analysis for a five-year pooled sample (n = 163,616), we find persistent enrollment gaps for Black ninth-grade students after controlling for prior academic achievement,…
Descriptors: High School Students, Grade 9, Advanced Courses, Socioeconomic Status
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Jason West; Paul Ratanasiripong; Stephen Glass; Christopher Lund – Middle School Journal, 2024
This study investigated the impact middle school tracking has on outcomes in high school and the factors associated with those outcomes. Utilizing data from a large, diverse school district, this quantitative study investigated the relationships between middle school and high school English course enrollment among 4,503 middle school students. The…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Track System (Education), High School Students, Correlation
Michelle L. Misiano – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Parents compare the costs of sending their children to private Christian schools with the benefits of their children attending the schools. Christian school leaders benefit from understanding the factors influencing parents' decisions to enroll their children in Christian private schools. In this qualitative study, the researcher interviewed nine…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Enrollment Rate, Elementary Schools, Christianity
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Yoo, Paul Y.; Domina, Thurston; McEachin, Andrew; Clark, Leah; Hertenstein, Hannah; Penner, Andrew M. – National Center for Research on Education Access and Choice, 2023
Virtual charter schools are increasingly popular, yet there is no research on the long-term outcomes of virtual charter students. We link statewide education records from Oregon with earnings information from IRS records housed at the U.S. Census Bureau to provide evidence on how virtual charter students fare as young adults. Virtual charter…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Charter Schools, Virtual Schools, Outcomes of Education
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Smith, M. Corinne; Gosky, Ross M.; Li, Jui-Teng – Journal of College Access, 2022
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between visits to college campuses by middle school and high school students and postsecondary enrollment rates, where campus visits are classified as both formal college visits and also informal campus visits. Specifically, Traditional Campus Visits and Educational Campus Field Trips are…
Descriptors: Correlation, School Visitation, Middle School Students, High School Students
Ryu, Wonsun; Schudde, Lauren; Pack-Cosme, Kim – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2023
Although dual enrollment programming and interest in how that programming shapes students' college outcomes have expanded considerably in the past 20 years, policymakers, educational administrators, and practitioners do not have adequate information about which dual enrollment structural options are most effective. Using statewide administrative…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, High School Students, Grade 9, Community Colleges
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Xing, Xue; Rojewski, Jay W. – Journal of Career Development, 2022
Data from the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 were used to describe and compare postsecondary education enrollment patterns of first- and continuing-generation students. Social cognitive career theory was used to explain the processes of educational and career pursuit and attainment, as well as personal, behavioral, and…
Descriptors: Enrollment Trends, Enrollment Rate, Postsecondary Education, First Generation College Students
Kelly Streams Hudson – ProQuest LLC, 2022
An indicator of college readiness is the participation in advanced courses in junior high school. The purpose of this mixed methods study is to examine the social capital of 7th and 8th grade students enrolled in advanced mathematics courses. This study examined junior high student perspectives in the areas of attitude toward college, teacher…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Disadvantaged Youth, Preadolescents, Grade 7
Wang, Crystal; Looby, Karen – Online Submission, 2018
The Career and Technical Education (CTE) Department in the Austin Independent School District (AISD) administers a national engineering program in middle schools, called Gateway, and in high schools, called Project Lead the Way (PLTW). In this summary, the PLTW courses taken during high school were examined for two cohorts of students who…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, School Districts, Engineering Education, Middle School Students
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Yaluma, Christopher B.; Tyner, Adam – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2021
This article tests hypotheses by examining variations in the percentage of elementary and middle schools offering gifted and talented programs as well as gifted student participation and representation between 2012 and 2016. Using the Office of Civil Rights and the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) Common Core data, we find that…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Gifted Education, Elementary Schools, Middle Schools
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Gross, Max; Shiferaw, Menbere; Deutsch, Jonah; Gill, Brian – Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic, 2021
This study estimated the promotion power of public high schools in the District of Columbia. Promotion power is a measure of school effectiveness that distinguishes a school's contributions to student outcomes from the contributions of the background characteristics of the students it serves. Promotion power scores are distinct from status…
Descriptors: Public Schools, High Schools, School Effectiveness, Student Characteristics
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Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic, 2021
This Study Snapshot highlights key findings from a study that explores the promotion power of public high schools in the District of Columbia. Promotion power is a measure of school effectiveness that distinguishes a school's contributions to student outcomes from the contributions of the background characteristics of the students it serves.…
Descriptors: Public Schools, High Schools, School Effectiveness, Student Characteristics
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