NCES EDGE School Neighborhood Poverty Estimates

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) United States Department of Education. Institute of Education Sciences. National Center for Education Statistics

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United States Department of Education. Institute of Education Sciences. National Center for Education Statistics. NCES EDGE School Neighborhood Poverty Estimates. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2025-02-13. https://doi.org/10.3886/E219223V1

Project Description

Project Title:  View help for Project Title NCES EDGE School Neighborhood Poverty Estimates
Summary:  View help for Summary The EDGE School Neighborhood Poverty Estimates rely on household economic data from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS) and public school point locations developed by NCES to estimate the income-to-poverty ratio for neighborhoods around school buildings. Unlike neighborhood poverty estimates created from survey responses collected for predefined geographic areas like census tracts, Spatially Interpolated Demographic Estimates (SIDE) predict conditions at specific point locations based on the survey responses nearest to those locations. This approach allows SIDE estimates to extract new value from existing data sources to provide indicators of neighborhood conditions. The economic conditions of school neighborhoods may be different from the economic conditions in neighborhoods where students live. However, the economic condition of the neighborhood around a school may impact schools, just as the condition of neighborhood schools may impact local neighborhoods. The school neighborhood poverty estimates provide an additional indicator to help identify these local conditions.
Original Distribution URL:  View help for Original Distribution URL https://nces.ed.gov/programs/edge/Economic/NeighborhoodPoverty

Scope of Project

Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage National
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 2015 – 2022 (School years)
Universe:  View help for Universe Public school locations in 50 states and Washington, D.C. Locations derived from school addresses reported in the Common Core of Data (CCD) and point locations based on EDGE Public School Geocode Files.


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