Consistency in Campus Student Mobility Predicting Campus Mobility at Houston Area Public Schools

This brief relays findings on how campuses’ student body characteristics, neighborhood features, campus attributes, and nearby alternative schooling options influence campus mobility rates.

Student mobility is a widespread phenomenon in Houston area public schools (Potter et al. 2020), which often has negative consequences for students’ performance and attainment (Gasper, DeLuca, and Estacion 2012; Hanushek, Kain, and Rivkin 2004; Rumberger 2003; Stroub and Gill 2021). While being widespread, student mobility is not uniform across all campuses (Welsh 2017). This brief builds on earlier research looking at what predicted whether a student would change schools during a school year (Gill 2021) to focus on what predicts the amount of student mobility taking place at a campus. As such, this brief relays findings from analyses exploring how campuses’ student body characteristics, neighborhood features, campus attributes, and nearby alternative schooling options influence campus mobility rates.

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HERC embarked on a multiyear study of student mobility in Texas and across the Houston area to better understand which students change schools and the consequences those changes have on educational outcomes.

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