This is a quick program written for OpenBrackets outreach efforts. It parses a spreadsheet of Free Meal Data from the California Department of Education website. The spreadsheet has per-school statistics, which are transformed into per-district statistics.
The parser generates district_free_meal_percentages.txt, a list of all California school districts sorted by Free Meal percentages, and bay_area_sorted.txt, a list of just Bay Area school districts. Bay Area schools districts are determined with the bay_area_districts.txt list, which is from KRON4. The following code was used to scrape the district names.
const elems = document.querySelectorAll('a[rel="noreferrer noopener"] > strong, strong > a[rel="noreferrer noopener"]')
let s = "";
for (elem of elems) {
if (elem.textContent.contains("District")) {
s += elem.textContent + '\n'
}
console.log(s)
}
The district names in the sheet and in the list are slightly different, so the parser checks if one of them is a substring of the other. This causes some issues, which have been manually dealt with. In particular, some districts match when they should not (e.g. "San Francisco" matching "South San Francisco"). Other districts do not match at all. Those required changing the names in the bay_area_districts.txt file. Here is a list of those changes:
Tamalpais Unified School DistricttoTamalpais Union HighPiner Olivet Union Elementary School DistricttoPiner-Olivet Union Elementary School DistrictMoraga Unified School DistricttoMoraga School DistrictAlbany Unified School DistricttoAlbany City Unified School DistrictPiedmont Unified School DistricttoPiedmont City Unified School DistrictFranklin-McKinley Union School DistricttoFranklin-McKinley Elementary School DistrictCampbell Unified School DistricttoCampbell Union School DistrictMountain View Los Altos Union High School DistricttoMountain View-Los Altos Union High School DistrictMt. Pleasant Elementary School DistricttoMount Pleasant Elementary School DistrictLive Oak School Districtsplit intoLive Oak Unified School DistrictandLive Oak Elementary School District
Once the bay_area_sorted.txt file was created, I took the top few from the sorted list as outreach targets. A few of the schools were skipped. Those schools are listed below, along with the reason for omission.
- Bellevue Union is elementary school students.
- Live Oak Elementary is mostly elementary school students but also has a middle school? Might be worth looking at?
- Bayshore Elementary is one elementary school, I think.