School District Analysis
Project Overview
Purpose
The school board has notified Maria and her supervisor that the students_complete.csv contains evidence of academic dishonesty within the reading and math grades for Thomas High School ninth graders. The evidence suggests that the graders appear to have been altered. The school board needs to uphold state-testing standards even though the extent of the academic dishonesty is unknown. Therefore, the math and reading scores for the 9th graders of Thomas High School will be voided and replaced with NaN while keeping the rest of the other data intact. As a result of the academic dishonesty findings, a new analysis will be conducted.
Results
School Summary
From the original to the new analysis, a significant decrease can be seen in the % Passing Math, % Passing Reading, and % Overall Passing. Also, a slight decline in the Average Math Score and Average Reading Score:
- Original
- Average Math Score: 83.418349
- Average Reading Score: 83.848930
- % Passing Math: 93.272171%
- % Passing Reading: 97.308869%
- % Overall Passing: 90.948012%
- New
- Average Math Score: 83.350937
- Average Reading Score: 83.896082
- % Passing Math: 66.911315%
- % Passing Reading: 69.663609%
- % Overall Passing: 65.076453%
Original
New
District summary
From the original to the new analysis, a slight decrease can be seen in the Average Math Score, % Passing Math, % Passing Reading, and % Overall Passing:
- Original
- Average Math Score: 79
- % Passing Math: 75%
- % Passing Reading: 86%
- % Overall Passing: 65%
- New
- Average Math Score: 78.9
- % Passing Math: 74.8%
- % Passing Reading: 85.7%
- % Overall Passing: 64.9%
Original
New
Scores by School Spending
From the original to the new analysis, there were no significant changes. A minuscule decrease of a few decimal point changes could be seen in the $630-644 spending range (per student), but its nothing major:
- Original
- $630-644 Spending Range (per student)
- Average Math Score: 78.518855
- Average Reading Score: 81.624473
- % Passing Math: 73.484209%
- % Passing Reading: 84.391793%
- % Overall Passing: 62.857656%
- $630-644 Spending Range (per student)
- New
- $630-644 Spending Range (per student)
- Average Math Score: 78.502002%
- Average Reading Score: 81.636261%
- % Passing Math: 73.462589%
- % Passing Reading: 84.319261%
- % Overall Passing: 62.778233%
- $630-644 Spending Range (per student)
Original
New
Scores by School Size
From the original to the new analysis, there were no significant changes. A minuscule decrease of a few decimal point changes could be seen in the Medium (1000-2000) school sizes, but its nothing major:
- Original
- Medium School Size
- Average Math Score: 83.374684
- Average Reading Score: 83.864438
- % Passing Math: 93.599695%
- % Passing Reading: 96.790680%
- % Overall Passing: 90.621535%
- Medium School Size
- New
- Medium School Size
- Average Math Score: 83.361201
- Average Reading Score: 83.873869
- % Passing Math: 93.582398%
- % Passing Reading: 96.732654%
- % Overall Passing: 90.557997%
- Medium School Size
Original
New
Summary
- School Summary
- Significant decrease can be seen in the
% Passing Math,% Passing Reading, and% Overall Passing. - Slight decrease in the
Average Math ScoreandAverage Reading Score
- Significant decrease can be seen in the
- District Summary
- Slight decrease in the
Average Math Score,% Passing Math,% Passing Reading, and% Overall Passing
- Slight decrease in the
- Scores by School Spending
- Minuscule decrease in the
$630-644spending range (per student) - No significant changes
- Minuscule decrease in the
- Scores by School Size
- Minuscule decrease in the
Medium (1000-2000)school sizes - No significant changes
- Minuscule decrease in the
Resources
- Data Source:
schools_complete.csv,students_complete.csv - Source Code:
PyCitySchools.ipynb,PyCitySchools_Challenge.ipynb - Software:
Python 3.9.12,Jupyter Notebook - Libraries:
NumPy 1.22.3,Pandas 1.4.2,IPython 8.2.0