Datasets > School Performance Data
| Category | Education |
| Agency | City of Portland |
| Sub-Agency | Technology |
| Date Released | September 28, 2012 |
| Date Updated | September 28, 2012 |
| Frequency | As needed |
| Description |
RESTful web service returning a list of school names, school IDs, and school type for all schools in the Portland Public Schools system. Optional parameter includes query, which is a string (comma separated): Will append default schools list with the fields specified. Example: q=NumberOfStudents,Teachers |
| Agency Program | City of Portland / Technology |
| Technical Documentation | School Performance Data (metadata) |
| Keywords |
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Discussion
In this dataset you have a column labeled "Teachers" that contains numbers with decimal points (for example 20.6). It seems unlikely that this is intended to express there are 20.6 teachers working at a given school. could you please provide some insight into the methodology for calculating the values in this column? What is this number intended to represent, average number of students/teacher? I have the same question for columns: "EducationalAssistants" "OtherStaff"