A school “colocation” occurs when two or more public schools share the same school building or campus. They have long been a part of the city’s public schools, but increased rapidly under the Bloomberg and subsequent administrations, mirroring the rise of charter schools and the small schools movement.
In this session, we present a look at the state of colocations in our schools through the lens of open data. We look at colocations from the perspective of changing neighborhood demographics represented in US Census data, as well as school demographic and academic data gathered from NYC Open Data datasets. We consider how and when schools thrive as colocations and when they suffer or present inequities.
During our presentation, we will discuss the background and driving questions for our research and our findings, but we will also demonstrate our methods and approach (and code) used to work with open geospatial data.
We follow our presentation with a workshop demonstrating new ways to plot overlapping spaces on data driven maps using the Python programming language. Our team will work with participants to code their own maps that investigate various aspects of school buildings and colocations. Participants of all levels are welcome.
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