Parents say they love schools where kids can't read
A reproducibility log: the data this analysis touched, the queries it ran, the outside sources it leaned on, and the steps a third party would follow to re-run it.
Summary
Self-joined survey_parent_satisfaction with ela_all_proficiency / math_all_proficiency at each school for the most recent year. Identified schools where parent satisfaction is very high (95+) but proficiency is very low (under 30%).
Data sources
- Database tableschool_year_metrics
Long-format per-school per-year metric facts (school_dbn, year, metric_key, subgroup, value, suppressed). Loaded from DOE/NYSED public files via scripts/loaders/*.
Steps
Self-join survey_parent_satisfaction with ela_all_proficiency. Rank by gap.
Caveats
Parent satisfaction can reflect many things — school safety, communication, accommodations for working families — not just academic outcomes. The 'blind spot' framing is normative; readers may interpret the gap differently.
Reproduce
Clone the repo, set DATABASE_URL to a Postgres with the project schema loaded, run `npx tsx scripts/loaders/<source>.ts` for any not-yet-loaded data, then issue the queries in the Steps section. The story page also lists the exact `metric_key`/`subgroup`/`year` filters used. Searchable by the answer's headline number — every figure is recomputable from the queries shown.
The recipe lives at data/stories/recipes.ts in the repo. Corrections welcome.