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Jane Arnold Lincove; Jon Valant – National Center for Research on Education Access and Choice, 2023
This report exam­ines how demographics and outcomes changed when schools that had enrolled a dis­pro­por­tion­ate share of the sys­tem's white stu­dents entered the city's cen­tral­ized enroll­ment sys­tem in New Orleans. It finds that the schools enter­ing that sys­tem (OneApp/?NCAP) led to increased access to those schools for Black and oth­er…
Descriptors: Enrollment, Student Characteristics, White Students, African American Students
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Jon Valant; Brigham Walker – National Center for Research on Education Access and Choice, 2023
Many U.S. cities with school choice programs have adopted unified enrollment systems to manage their application and placement processes centrally. Typically, these systems use placement algorithms to assign students to schools. These algorithms make placements based on families' rank-ordered requests, seat availability in schools, and various…
Descriptors: School Choice, Enrollment, Student Placement, Algorithms
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Jon Valant; Brigham Walker – National Center for Research on Education Access and Choice, 2023
Many cities with school choice programs employ algorithms to make school placements. These algorithms use student priorities to determine which applicants get seats in oversubscribed schools. This study explores whether the New Orleans placement algorithm tends to favor students of certain races or socioeconomic classes. Specifically, we examine…
Descriptors: School Choice, Enrollment, Student Placement, Algorithms
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Jane Arnold Lincove; Jon Valant – National Center for Research on Education Access and Choice, 2023
Unified enrollment (UE) systems were designed to improve efficiency, equity, and transparency in school choice processes, but research has focused on efficiency gains. This study examines whether moving from decentralized enrollment processes to UE mitigates or exacerbates racial segregation that often occurs in choice systems. Specifically, we…
Descriptors: Enrollment, Student Placement, Algorithms, Educational Change