Student Mobility between Charter and Traditional Public School Sectors: Assessing Enrollment Patterns among Major Charter Management Organizations in Texas
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Literature Review
2.1. Research on the Charter School Sector in the U.S.
2.2. Research on the Charter School Sector in Texas
3. Enrollment in Charter Schools in Texas
4. Theoretical Framework
5. Data and Methods
5.1. Data
5.2. Analytic Approach
6. Findings
6.1. Special Education
6.2. Prior Achievement in Grades 3 to 8
6.3. Other Student Characteristics
7. Discussions
7.1. Synthesizing Results
7.2. Limitations
7.3. Future Research Directions
8. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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2016–17 School Year | 2017–18 Enrollment | % Incr. from 2016–17 | ||||
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Districts | Schools | Enrollment | Percent of All Charters | |||
A. Charter districts | ||||||
Harmony | 7 | 46 | 31,985 | 11.7% | 33,248 | 3.9% |
IDEA | 1 | 44 | 29,334 | 10.8% | 35,595 | 21.3% |
KIPP | 4 | 41 | 23,279 | 8.5% | 25,154 | 8.1% |
Uplift | 1 | 29 | 15,768 | 5.8% | 17,291 | 9.7% |
Sub Total (largest four charters) | 13 | 160 | 100,366 | 36.8% | 111,288 | 10.9% |
All other charters | 167 | 469 | 172,319 | 63.2% | 184,925 | 7.3% |
Sub Total (largest four + all other charters) | 180 | 629 | 272,685 | 100.0% | 296,213 | 8.6% |
B. Traditional public school (TPS) districts | ||||||
All TPS districts | 1023 | 8082 | 5,071,149 | 5,088,799 | 0.3% | |
Total | 1216 | 9180 | 5,343,834 | 5,385,012 | 0.8% |
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Knight, D.S.; Shin, J.; McMorris, C. Student Mobility between Charter and Traditional Public School Sectors: Assessing Enrollment Patterns among Major Charter Management Organizations in Texas. Educ. Sci. 2022, 12, 915. https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/educsci12120915
Knight DS, Shin J, McMorris C. Student Mobility between Charter and Traditional Public School Sectors: Assessing Enrollment Patterns among Major Charter Management Organizations in Texas. Education Sciences. 2022; 12(12):915. https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/educsci12120915
Chicago/Turabian StyleKnight, David S., Jinseok Shin, and Claire McMorris. 2022. "Student Mobility between Charter and Traditional Public School Sectors: Assessing Enrollment Patterns among Major Charter Management Organizations in Texas" Education Sciences 12, no. 12: 915. https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/educsci12120915