On Track Through High School
By: Molly Pileggi, Alyn Turner, Lindsey Liu, and Jason Fontana
November 2020
This study provides a snapshot of the district’s school-year credit recovery utilization—including eligibility, enrollment, and completion—using newly available data for high school students who entered the 2018–19 school year with a record of one or more failed courses.
On Track Through High School
By: Molly Pileggi, Lindsey Liu, and Alyn Turner
August 2020
Building upon this prior work, this report examines two of those same cohorts of off-track freshman in the expected graduating classes of 2017 and 2018, following them over time to understand which students were able to graduate and when they got back on track.
Connecting Students and Schools
By: Molly Pileggi, Marc L. Stein, Alyn Turner, and Nathaniel Dewey
August 2020
This report uses School District of Philadelphia high school student enrollment and residence data to estimate student commutes to all 52 traditional district high schools via public transit.
Connecting Students and Schools
By: Matthew P. Steinberg, Molly Pileggi, and Ruth Neild
September 2019
This study uses four years of student-level data for all students enrolled in Philadelphia public high schools from the 2013-14 through 2016-17 school years. We examine the characteristics of mobile students and the types of schools they most commonly exit and enter as well as the characteristics of schools with higher rates of student mobility.
Connecting Students and Schools
By: Ted Wills, Ruth Curran Neild, Molly Pileggi
April 2019
This report studies attendance patterns of first-time SDP ninth graders during the 2015-16 and 2016-17 school years. It examines the spread of overall attendance rates in these two student cohorts, patterns over the course of their ninth grade year, and how those patterns differ for students with different levels of academic achievement.