School Building
3 nodes · kind (ufo)
A single school building. A Kind, because it has identity of its own and persists through changes in who attends it, what it is called, and which district operates it.
It exists because the accountability system does not work at the grain the funding system does. Ohio pays education agencies and identifies schools. ESSA selects the lowest-performing 5% of Title I buildings; R.C. 3302.12 attaches its intervention to a building; and the chronic absenteeism criterion that decides CSI for schools with fewer than three rated components is a building measure. Rolling any of that up to the district records a consequence and discards the object that triggered it.
The corpus holds exemplars, not the panel. There are 3,318 rated buildings in Ohio and they
live in report-card-2425-buildings.csv.
What belongs here is the handful chosen to span the distinctions that matter — the same rule the
education-agency class follows, and for the same reason.
Accountability status is a Role, not a property of the building. CSI, TSI and ATSI are things
a school is identified as for a period, contingently, and they belong in roles with the years
each applied — exactly as property-poor and guarantee district do one level up.
Nodes
| Anton Grdina | What the bottom of Ohio's distribution looks like at building grain, in a district that has been under an academic distress commission: a Performance Index of 36.8, and three consecutive years below 40. |
|---|---|
| Barrington Road Elementary School | The contrast case at building grain — five stars, a Performance Index of 105.9, and 2.5% chronic absenteeism. Sixty-nine points of Performance Index above Anton Grdina, in the same state and year on the same instruments. |
| Sheridan High School | The building Ohio's constitutional litigation is named after. Nathan DeRolph was a student here when the Ohio Coalition for Equity and Adequacy filed on his behalf in Perry County in December 1991. |
Properties
What a school building may carry.
| Property | Type | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Building IRN | string | The building's own IRN, which is not the district's |
| District | string | Operating district and its IRN |
| Grades | string | The grade span the building serves, written as PK-8, K-5 or 9-12. The report card's download files carry no grade span; it comes from the report card's own building record, the department's EdChoice designation lists, or the federal school directory, and the node names which in a claim tag. |
| Enrollment | string | Building enrollment, on the report card's count, with the year |
| Performance | text | Performance Index and component ratings, with the years. Three consecutive years is the span both the CSI escalation and the academic distress trigger read. |
| Chronic absenteeism | string | The rate, with the year. A CSI criterion in its own right for buildings with fewer than three rated components, not a descriptive statistic. |
| Roles | text | Contingent identifications and the periods they applied — CSI, TSI, ATSI, Title I served. |
| Series in the repository | string | Path under crates/ to the committed building series |
Relationships
The edges this class may enter into. Out is declared by the node itself; in is declared by the node at the other end.
| Relationship | To | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Operated by out | Education Agency | The district that operates the building |
| Identified under out | Accountability Regime | A regime that has identified this building for support or improvement |
| Subject to out | State Intervention | An intervention imposed on the building |
| Rated on out | Metric | A measure the building is rated on |