Jasmine Tilley12/6/10

UP 206A Final

How do child poverty, school enrollment, household income, and adult educational attainment in LA County relate to one another?

What is the quality of the schools the poorest children in LA have access to?

“child” = under the age of 18 “adult” = ages 18 and over, unless

otherwise noted

“API” = Academic Performance Index

All data is by census tract

% Children Not Enrolled in School% Children Not

Enrolled in School

% Children in Poverty% Children in Poverty

% Adults >25 Without A HS

Diploma

% Adults >25 Without A HS

Diploma

% Adults in Poverty% Adults in Poverty

% Children Not Enrolled in School% Children Not

Enrolled in School

% Adults >25 Without A HS

Diploma

% Adults >25 Without A HS

Diploma

Census Tracts With the Most

Children in Poverty

Census Tracts With the Most

Children in Poverty

Census Tract With Highest Population

Census Tract With Highest Population

Me t a d a t a

Children are more likely to not be enrolled in school when their parents are poor and/or do not have a high school diploma.

The majority of poor children who are enrolled in school are enrolled in schools of very poor quality.

American Fact Finder: Children in Poverty, School Enrollment, Poverty Status by Age, Educational Attainment, Census Tract data, LA Streets data

All school data retrieved on 12/1/10 from the LA Times at: http://projects.latimes.com/mapping-la/neighborhoods/neighborhood/westlake/schools/?q=752+South+Alvarado+Street&lat=34.0551571&lng=-118.2776279&g=Google+Maps

Inset map- Children in Poverty, Census Tracts with the Most Children in Poverty, Census Tract with Highest Population

Geoprocessing- All maps Graduated Symbol- Enrollment and API symbology Attribute subset selections- All maps Boundary subset selections- % Middle School Aged Children

(tracts that intersect with buffer) Aggregating attribute fields- % Adults Without a HS Diploma, %

Middle School Aged Children Creating indices- All maps with %’s Original data- Schools Geocoding- Address locator for schools Metadata- Schools Measurement- Buffer for schools slides Modeling- Layouts showing API and Enrollment varied by grade level

of school