PhiladelphiaDiscipline & climateMethodology recipe
Where Philly's chronic-suspension tail moved 2019-20 to 2024-25
A reproducibility log: the data this analysis touched, the queries it ran, and how a third party would re-run it.
Summary
Per-school time series of `oss_pct_chronic` across the 6 published years. Highlights schools persistently at the top of the chronic-suspension distribution.
Data sources
- Database tablephilly_school_year_metrics
Long-format facts. PK (school_ulcs, year, metric_key, subgroup, population_cut). Carries comparison_group_percentile + citywide_percentile (direction-adjusted).
- External datasetSDP School Performance (OpenDataPhilly CDN)
Steps
Time series for the current top-3.
SELECT s.name, m.year, m.value FROM philly_schools s JOIN philly_school_year_metrics m ON m.school_ulcs = s.ulcs_code WHERE m.metric_key='oss_pct_chronic' AND m.subgroup='ALL' AND s.name IN ('GROVER WASHINGTON JR. MIDDLE', 'STRAWBERRY MANSION HIGH SCHOOL', 'MURRELL DOBBINS HIGH SCHOOL') ORDER BY s.name, m.year;
Caveats
2020-21 (COVID year) values are anomalously low across the board.
Reproduce
OSS loader already in DB. Query above.
The recipe lives at data/cities/philly/stories/recipes.ts in the repo.