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"core": false }, { "id": "percent-only-composition-years", "title": "2019-20 through 2021-22 publish free/reduced lunch and the other composition dimensions as percentages with no count column", "effect": "breaks", "type": "format", "status": "monitor", "core": false }, { "id": "prgcode-55-is-the-total-row", "title": "2010-11 and 2011-12 ship no GRADE_LEVEL column, so nothing spells 'Total' and the authoritative row is marked only by PRGCODE 55", "effect": "breaks", "type": "coding", "status": "monitor", "core": false }, { "id": "era-b-extra-column-spellings", "title": "2009-10 abbreviates reduced-price lunch to RED_LUNCH and migrant to MIG, and ships a HOMELESS column the parser never looked for", "effect": "breaks", "type": "format", "status": "monitor", "core": false }, { "id": "multilingual-learner-renamed", "title": "The column reads 'English Learners' through 2022-23 and 'Multilingual Learners' from 2023-24", "effect": "breaks", "type": "format", "status": "monitor", "core": false } ], "practices": [], "latest_change": "2026-07-29", "page": "fall-enrollment.md", "page_url": "https://njschooldata.fyi/data/ergo/fall-enrollment.md" }, { "slug": "idea-classification-rates", "title": "NJDOE IDEA Section 618 Classification Rates", "publisher": "NJ Department of Education, Office of Special Education", "status": "live", "confidence": "A", "updated": "2026-08-03", "subject": "https://www.nj.gov/education/specialed/monitor/ideapublicdata/", "derived_from": [], "version": "", "implementation": "https://github.com/lavallee/njschooldata", "pitfall": "NJDOE counted public and non-public students through October 2018 and public-school students only from October 2019 — a 1.13 to 1.21 percentage-point step statewide — so no figure may be joined, averaged or compared across that break.", "coverage": { "period": "Eleven October reference dates, 2014-10-15 to 2024-10-15 — but on two counted populations, so not eleven comparable points", "grain": "district overall classification row x coverage universe x metric; statewide category row x coverage universe x metric", "entities": "8,495 district rows across eleven editions and two coverage universes, 13 edition-universe registers, 84 statewide category rows, and 99 Section 618 report-family coverage cells; zero school rows in any edition; 558 of 587 rendered budget districts match by exact code" }, "missingness": {}, "unknowns": [], "source_urls": [ "https://www.nj.gov/education/specialed/monitor/ideapublicdata/docs/2025_618data/2025IDEA618PublicReporting_ClassificationRates.xlsx" ], "counts": { "issues": 10, "core": 3, "practices": 0, "effects": { "breaks": 1, "corrupts": 3, "misleads": 2, "context": 4 } }, "issues": [ { "id": "three-empties-are-not-zero", "title": "Three districts have a suppressed enrollment denominator (`*`), one has not-collected IEP and rate cells (empty), and four have an exact zero NJDOE printed — none of the three may render as the others", "effect": "breaks", "type": "suppression", "status": "mitigated", "core": true }, { "id": "rate-is-an-administrative-count", "title": "The classification rate is the share of students holding an IEP on one October day; it measures neither need, identification quality, service quality, staffing, spending, placement nor compliance, and it is directionless", "effect": "misleads", "type": "definitional", "status": "mitigated", "core": true }, { "id": "no-district-level-breakdowns", "title": "The 13 disability categories in this workbook exist for New Jersey only and there is no district-level breakdown by disability, race, gender or educational environment in THIS file — but NJDOE publishes exactly those breakdowns at district grain in a sibling Section 618 report family, and a surface must not turn this file's limit into a claim about the publisher", "effect": "context", "type": "coverage", "status": "mitigated", "core": false }, { "id": "coverage-universe-changes-midway", "title": "Through the October 2018 count NJDOE counted public and non-public students together; from October 2019 it counted public-school students only; and in October 2022 and October 2023 it published both — so the eleven editions are two series, not one", "effect": "corrupts", "type": "universe", "status": "mitigated", "core": true }, { "id": "denominator-header-contradicts-the-query", "title": "Seven of the eleven editions head the enrollment column `Gened` or `General Ed. Enrollment`, but the publisher's own embedded query counts every student aged 3-21 including those with IEPs, and only that wider reading reconciles against the published rate", "effect": "corrupts", "type": "coding", "status": "mitigated", "core": false }, { "id": "identity-before-the-spine-has-evidence", "title": "The district-code join runs 97.55% (2015 edition) to 99.54%, but the organization spine holds no evidence before 2020-08-11, so a matched pre-2020 row proves the code is in use today rather than that the entity behind it is the same district", "effect": "context", "type": "identity", "status": "mitigated", "core": false }, { "id": "category-breakdown-is-four-editions-of-eleven", "title": "The statewide disability-category breakdown ships as a workbook in only four editions and as a PDF in the other seven, so the category series has four points where the district series has eleven — and three categories were renamed across the span", "effect": "context", "type": "coverage", "status": "mitigated", "core": false }, { "id": "deaf-blindness-rate-rounds-to-zero", "title": "The statewide Deaf-Blindness row publishes a classification rate of exactly 0 against a headcount of 18 students", "effect": "corrupts", "type": "measurement", "status": "open", "core": false }, { "id": "embedded-title-contradicts-reference-date", "title": "The 2025-edition workbook's embedded title reads `School Year 2023-24` while the reference date NJDOE states for the data is 2024-10-15", "effect": "misleads", "type": "entry", "status": "mitigated", "core": false }, { "id": "special-services-districts-have-no-row", "title": "29 of the 587 rendered district reports have no exact-code row in this file, and 20 of them are the county special-services districts, educational-services commissions and jointure commissions a special-education surface most invites a reader to look for", "effect": "context", "type": "linkage", "status": "mitigated", "core": false } ], "practices": [], "latest_change": "2026-08-01", "page": "idea-classification-rates.md", "page_url": "https://njschooldata.fyi/data/ergo/idea-classification-rates.md" }, { "slug": "noncertificated-staff", "title": "NJDOE Non-Certificated Staff", "publisher": "New Jersey Department of Education", "status": "live", "confidence": "A", "updated": "2026-07-22", "subject": "https://www.nj.gov/education/doedata/ncs/index.shtml", "derived_from": [], "version": "", "implementation": "https://github.com/lavallee/njschooldata", "pitfall": "The publisher's district total is authoritative: 84 rounded 2020-21 role rows differ from it by 0.1 or 0.2 FTE, and FTE is not employee headcount, payroll, cost, quality, or need.", "coverage": { "years": "2020-21 through 2025-26", "grain": "school year x district x non-certificated support role, plus one publisher total", "entities": "32,048 district-role rows and 4,006 district totals; 582 of 587 rendered budget districts have both staffing families" }, "missingness": {}, "unknowns": [], "source_urls": [ "https://www.nj.gov/education/doedata/ncs/index.shtml" ], "counts": { "issues": 3, "core": 1, "practices": 0, "effects": { "corrupts": 2, "misleads": 1 } }, "issues": [ { "id": "fte-is-not-headcount-or-payroll", "title": "Non-certificated FTE is fractional reported workload, not employee headcount, payroll, cost, effectiveness, quality, or need", "effect": "misleads", "type": "definitional", "status": "open", "core": false }, { "id": "reported-total-rounding", "title": "Eighty-four 2020-21 district role sums differ from the publisher-reported total by 0.1 or 0.2 FTE", "effect": "corrupts", "type": "measurement", "status": "mitigated", "core": true }, { "id": "post-sentinel-trailer-rows", "title": "Twelve rows after the declared table sentinel are duplicate or conflicting trailers, not accepted replacements", "effect": "corrupts", "type": "format", "status": "mitigated", "core": false } ], "practices": [], "latest_change": "2026-07-22", "page": "noncertificated-staff.md", "page_url": "https://njschooldata.fyi/data/ergo/noncertificated-staff.md" }, { "slug": "spr", "title": "NJ School Performance Reports", "publisher": "NJ Dept. of Education, Office of Performance Reports", "status": "live", "confidence": "A", "updated": "2026-08-03", "subject": "https://www.nj.gov/education/spr/", "derived_from": [], "version": "", "implementation": "https://github.com/lavallee/njschooldata", "pitfall": "NJ publishes two 4-yr graduation rates — State and Federal — but only State is populated across years (27,115 of 27,201 trend rows; Federal in just 5,423, effectively one year); plotting Federal as a trend, or comparing states on it, is the classic misread.", "coverage": { "years": "2015-16 → 2024-25 for graduation and chronic absenteeism, from all ten published editions; 2021-22 → 2024-25 for assessment and growth, which still read the current workbook's trend tabs only (see spr/trend-tabs-post-covid-only)", "grain": "school year × entity × student group", "entities": "every NJ public school, district, and the state" }, "missingness": {}, "unknowns": [], "source_urls": [ "https://www.nj.gov/education/spr/" ], "counts": { "issues": 25, "core": 1, "practices": 0, "effects": { "breaks": 5, "corrupts": 5, "misleads": 4, "context": 11 } }, "issues": [ { "id": "url-host-split", "title": "Files live under /education/sprreports/, not the /education/spr/ landing path", "effect": "breaks", "type": "availability", "status": "monitor", "core": false }, { "id": "layout-types-lie", "title": "Code columns typed 'Numeric' in the layout are zero-padded TEXT in the data", "effect": "corrupts", "type": "format", "status": "monitor", "core": false }, { "id": "schoolyear-typing-inconsistent", "title": "SchoolYear is declared Numeric in some tabs' layout and Text in others, though the data is always the string \"2020-21\"", "effect": "corrupts", "type": "format", "status": "monitor", "core": false }, { "id": "rate-prose-suppression", "title": "Rate cells carry % signs, prose suppression sentences, and >90%/<10% privacy caps", "effect": "breaks", "type": "suppression", "status": "monitor", "core": true }, { "id": "grad-state-vs-federal", "title": "State and Federal 4-yr graduation rates coexist; only State is populated across years", "effect": "misleads", "type": "measurement", "status": "monitor", "core": false }, { "id": "monolithic-workbook-size", "title": "The school-level workbook is ~330 MB with ~80 tabs — a full non-streaming load is impractical", "effect": "breaks", "type": "format", "status": "monitor", "core": false }, { "id": "new-format-2024-25-xlsx-only", "title": "From 2024-25 on, NJDOE drops the zip, Access, and Reference Guide PDF variants", "effect": "context", "type": "availability", "status": "open", "core": false }, { "id": "legacy-archive-link-is-dead", "title": "The legacy-years archive link is dead, and the live location is elsewhere", "effect": "breaks", "type": "availability", "status": "resolved", "core": false }, { "id": "cohort-profile-text-suppression-tell", "title": "NonContinuing/Persisting columns on GraduationCohortProfile are typed Text while their siblings are Numeric", "effect": "breaks", "type": "suppression", "status": "open", "core": false }, { "id": "trend-tabs-post-covid-only", "title": "The 2024-25 file's trend tabs start at 2020-21 or 2021-22, not earlier", "effect": "context", "type": "coverage", "status": "open", "core": false }, { "id": "the-nine-earlier-editions-are-the-same-measure", "title": "Older editions republish the same figures, and the overlap is the proof", "effect": "context", "type": "measurement", "status": "mitigated", "core": false }, { "id": "edition-census-is-source-shaped-not-conformed", "title": "The edition census preserves publisher columns and asserts no metric identity", "effect": "context", "type": "measurement", "status": "mitigated", "core": false }, { "id": "the-trend-tab-is-two-editions-old", "title": "Only the last two editions publish a chronic-absenteeism trend tab at all", "effect": "context", "type": "coverage", "status": "mitigated", "core": false }, { "id": "chronic-absenteeism-was-waived-in-2019-20", "title": "New Jersey collected no chronic absenteeism for 2019-20, by waiver", "effect": "corrupts", "type": "coverage", "status": "mitigated", "core": false }, { "id": "pandemic-editions-carry-per-element-publisher-cautions", "title": "NJDOE cautions 2019-20 and 2020-21 element by element, not once", "effect": "misleads", "type": "measurement", "status": "mitigated", "core": false }, { "id": "graduation-rate-type-is-recovered-from-the-statewide-column", "title": "Six editions lose GraduationRateType, and it is recovered rather than guessed", "effect": "corrupts", "type": "measurement", "status": "mitigated", "core": false }, { "id": "the-all-students-row-is-labelled-four-ways", "title": "Chronic absence labels its all-students row four ways across ten editions", "effect": "corrupts", "type": "identity", "status": "mitigated", "core": false }, { "id": "no-statewide-absence-rate-before-2021-22", "title": "Only the 2024-25 edition prints a statewide chronic-absence comparator", "effect": "context", "type": "coverage", "status": "mitigated", "core": false }, { "id": "two-2024-25-tabs-disagree-for-one-school", "title": "The 2024-25 student-group and trend tabs disagree for Bayonne Alternative High", "effect": "context", "type": "measurement", "status": "open", "core": false }, { "id": "pre-2020-editions-join-on-an-unverified-code", "title": "Before 2020-08-11 a resolving CDS code proves the code, not the school", "effect": "misleads", "type": "identity", "status": "mitigated", "core": false }, { "id": "the-oldest-graduation-edition-rounds-to-whole-percent", "title": "2015-16 publishes graduation rates as bare whole numbers on a different sheet", "effect": "context", "type": "measurement", "status": "mitigated", "core": false }, { "id": "grade-aggregation-bias", "title": "Summing grade-test proficiency into a school-wide figure is biased by suppression and course-mix — a capped Algebra I once inflated one", "effect": "misleads", "type": "measurement", "status": "monitor", "core": false }, { "id": "hs-no-sgp", "title": "StudentGrowthTrends has no rows for standalone high schools — SGP only exists for grades 4-8", "effect": "context", "type": "universe", "status": "open", "core": false }, { "id": "math-cohort-grades-3-8-only", "title": "The cohort-diagonal view (a class followed as it moves up) only works for grades 3-8 math", "effect": "context", "type": "coverage", "status": "open", "core": false }, { "id": "grade-mix-context", "title": "District/state context blends all tested grades; a school's value covers only its own", "effect": "context", "type": "definitional", "status": "open", "core": false } ], "practices": [], "latest_change": "2026-08-03", "page": "spr.md", "page_url": "https://njschooldata.fyi/data/ergo/spr.md" }, { "slug": "spr-discipline-safety", "title": "NJDOE SPR Discipline and Safety", "publisher": "NJ Department of Education, Office of Performance Reports", "status": "live", "confidence": "A", "updated": "2026-08-03", "subject": "https://www.nj.gov/education/spr/", "derived_from": [], "version": "", "implementation": "https://github.com/lavallee/njschooldata", "pitfall": "These are separate per-edition records of reported incidents and responses, not a combined safety score or evidence of cause, effectiveness, or budget performance; NJDOE states its own 2019-20 and 2020-21 discipline data are not comparable with adjacent years.", "coverage": { "period": "2024-25 School Performance Report edition for the conformed marts; the eight editions that carry a district disciplinary-removals sheet, 2017-18 to 2024-25, for the removal history", "grain": "district headline x metric; district x HIB nature x metric; district x All Students publisher row x metric; district x student group x metric and district x grade x metric; district x edition x removal measure x unit", "entities": "666 district reporting units; 576 of 587 rendered budget districts match by exact code" }, "missingness": {}, "unknowns": [], "source_urls": [ "https://www.nj.gov/education/sprreports/download/DataFiles/2024-2025/Database_DistrictStateDetail.xlsx" ], "counts": { "issues": 18, "core": 5, "practices": 0, "effects": { "breaks": 2, "corrupts": 2, "misleads": 13, "context": 1 } }, "issues": [ { "id": "two-suppression-markers", "title": "Suppressed cells carry either `*` or `<5`, and `<5` bounds the value where `*` says nothing at all", "effect": "misleads", "type": "suppression", "status": "mitigated", "core": false }, { "id": "less-than-five-is-count-only", "title": "`<5` never appears on a percentage metric; the percentage partner of a `<5` headcount is always a bare `*`", "effect": "misleads", "type": "suppression", "status": "mitigated", "core": false }, { "id": "less-than-five-includes-zero", "title": "The `<5` marker bounds a headcount at zero to four, not one to four — most `<5` cells are masked zeros", "effect": "corrupts", "type": "suppression", "status": "mitigated", "core": true }, { "id": "small-cell-rule-is-inconsistent", "title": "NJDOE masks 34,193 small district headcounts as `<5` but publishes 13,939 headcounts of one to four outright, so a published rate can rest on a single student", "effect": "misleads", "type": "suppression", "status": "mitigated", "core": false }, { "id": "sex-count-withheld-rate-published", "title": "For Male and Female alone, NJDOE suppresses 98.522% of district headcounts and only 16.121% of the matching percentages", "effect": "misleads", "type": "suppression", "status": "mitigated", "core": false }, { "id": "suppression-tracks-group-size", "title": "The smallest student groups are withheld most: 98.522% of Non-Binary cells and 92.327% of American Indian cells against 16.603% for Students with Disabilities", "effect": "misleads", "type": "coverage", "status": "mitigated", "core": true }, { "id": "published-zero-is-not-a-gap", "title": "`0` and `0.00%` are exact publisher zeros, not missing values, and they are the majority state in the early grades and the small districts", "effect": "corrupts", "type": "suppression", "status": "mitigated", "core": false }, { "id": "dimensions-effectively-never-published", "title": "Non-Binary/Undesignated Gender, American Indian or Alaska Native and Grade PK are present in every district row and almost never carry a value", "effect": "misleads", "type": "coverage", "status": "mitigated", "core": false }, { "id": "arrest-columns-are-named-police", "title": "The source fields behind the arrest measures are named PoliceCount and PolicePercent while the published layout defines them as all incidents leading to arrest", "effect": "misleads", "type": "definitional", "status": "mitigated", "core": false }, { "id": "reported-incidents-measure-reporting", "title": "Every measure here is an administrative record of what a district recorded and referred, so a diligent recorder looks worse than a district that handles the same behaviour informally", "effect": "misleads", "type": "definitional", "status": "open", "core": true }, { "id": "covid-editions-are-not-comparable", "title": "NJDOE prints, inside the 2019-20 and 2020-21 workbooks, that their discipline data may not be comparable with adjacent years", "effect": "misleads", "type": "measurement", "status": "mitigated", "core": true }, { "id": "an-unlegended-n-marker", "title": "Five editions print a bare `N` in place of a number and none of them says what it means", "effect": "misleads", "type": "coding", "status": "mitigated", "core": false }, { "id": "all-students-changes-row-shape", "title": "Through 2022-23 the district's suspension figure is its own row; 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