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COMPARISON OF RISK FACTORS BY GROUP
Using our risk factors, this chart compares the 737 students whom we know enrolled in DCYF schools in 2008-2009 (based on RIDE enrollment data), to those who did not.
By changing the indicator on the bar chart, we can see that 73% of the DCYF enrollees were chronically absent in the year prior to their enrollment in a DCYF school, compared with 21% of the non-enrollees.
Similarly, 28% of the DCYF enrollees attended 3 or more schools within a single school year (excessively mobile), compared with just under 2% of the non-enrollees.The two groups were found to be significantly different (p<.01) for each of the risk factors.
SUPPORTING AT-RISK YOUTH: IDENTIFY SCHOOLS
Now, we review risk-factor prevalence among students at individual high schools. This chart is sorted by the percentage of students in each high school whom we have labeled "at risk."
Note that the map shows us that the schools with high levels of at-risk kids are concentrated in the urban districts.
If we change the vertical axis to consider prior-year chronic absenteeism, we find that some schools need to consider why such a high percentage of their students are not coming to school. Chronic absenteeism puts a student at high risk for dropping out and DCYF-schools involvement.
High School Drilldown
This chart shows the same chronic-absenteeism data as we saw on the previous chart. But on this scatterplot, the horizontal axis sorts schools by reading proficiency. The colors, blue to brown, indicate the percentage of students at-risk from low risk (blue) to high risk (brown).
If we change the vertical axis to our Maternal Health Risks indicator (data provided by RIDOH), we see that students living in neighborhoods with high concentrations of maternal risk factors also tend to go to high-poverty schools.
Identifying At-Risk Schools: Middle Schools
Middle schools students have fewer risk factors in general, but the risks rise steeply in schools that have high concentrations of students in poverty.
If we change the vertical axis to % Ever Retained in Grade, we see a tall bar at the right representing UCAP, a special program specifically for students who are at least 1 or more grades below where they should be.
Middle School Drilldown
Higher rates of chronically-absent students (and therefore higher rates of at-risk students) are associated with lower levels of reading proficiency in Middle School students.
If we change the vertical axis to our Disaffection Indicator, (# students per 100 suspended for disaffection - skipping class, insubordination, disrespect, among others), we see schools that could develop more welcoming school climates. Research shows that suspensions tend to further alienate students from school and do not have the effect of teaching necessary social emotional skills. Disengagement from school is another Balfanz indicator of a future drop-out.