Problem
Nonstandard schools, such as special education schools, disciplinary schools, virtual schools, and schools just for international students should be distinguished from standard schools. There is currently no distinction between them.
Proposal
A notes field added to the schools and school_districts tables will allow a wide range of short descriptions of schools to be added and displayed on their own line, either above or below the line in ranking results that reads e.g. "Public school teaching grades 9-12".
If it appears that all of the notes will be in the form of "_____________ school" or "___________ school district", then the value of notes could take the place of the word "school" in the above line, e.g. "Public special education school teaching grades 9-12". But since it's difficult to predict at the moment if this field would have a wider range of possible values, the proposal to put it on its own line seems safest at the moment.
This information does not appear to be released in any easily parsable form by the Indiana Department of Education, but it may be available through the National Center for Education Statistics, which might even have an API.
Problem
Nonstandard schools, such as special education schools, disciplinary schools, virtual schools, and schools just for international students should be distinguished from standard schools. There is currently no distinction between them.
Proposal
A
notesfield added to theschoolsandschool_districtstables will allow a wide range of short descriptions of schools to be added and displayed on their own line, either above or below the line in ranking results that reads e.g. "Public school teaching grades 9-12".If it appears that all of the notes will be in the form of "_____________ school" or "___________ school district", then the value of
notescould take the place of the word "school" in the above line, e.g. "Public special education school teaching grades 9-12". But since it's difficult to predict at the moment if this field would have a wider range of possible values, the proposal to put it on its own line seems safest at the moment.This information does not appear to be released in any easily parsable form by the Indiana Department of Education, but it may be available through the National Center for Education Statistics, which might even have an API.