English Learner Program Exit Rate

Rate at which Georgia English Learner students exit EL services by district and statewide, fiscal years 2019-2024.

Source: GOSA
Year coverage: 2019–2024
Updated: annual
Version: 1.0.0
Schema hash: 09953e17f7ba

Detail levels available

StateDistrict · default

Overview

Governor's Office of Student Achievement (GOSA) annual English Learner (EL) program exit activity. For every Georgia LEA — standard county/city districts, state and commission charter schools, State Schools, and state-agency systems — plus a single statewide aggregate row, reports the number of EL students who exited EL services, the total EL enrollment used as the denominator, and the resulting exit rate per fiscal year. Coverage is fiscal years 2019-2024 (FY2024 = the 2023-24 school year) at the district and state detail levels; no school-level detail is published. District cells below the privacy threshold are suppressed in bronze as TFS and are NULL in gold; state totals are never suppressed. This topic is the merged successor to three legacy GOSA source topics (english_learners_el_exit_rate_district_level, _state_level, and _3yr_for_report_card) that published the same metric set; the report-card edition duplicated the district/state values exactly and was dropped during the merge.

Row grain: One row per year, district_code, school_code.

Key metric

el_exit_rate — EL Exit Rate (proportion)

The single headline value most answers want.

JSON schema →Data contract (YAML) →

Variables

Every column in the fact table. The code is the exact field name the API returns.

Column	Type	Unit	Range	Null?	Description
`year`Year	integer	—	—	no	Georgia fiscal year, equal to the ending (spring) calendar year of the school year (FY2024 = 2023-24). Read from the bronze FISCAL_YEAR column and cross-checked against the filename year. Full description▾ Georgia fiscal year, equal to the ending (spring) calendar year of the school year (FY2024 = 2023-24). Read from the bronze FISCAL_YEAR column and cross-checked against the filename year.
`district_code`District Code	string	—	—	yes	GOSA district/system code (FK to districts dimension), zero-padded to 3 digits; 7-digit charter and state-school codes are preserved unchanged. NULL on the statewide aggregate rows. Beyond the standard county/city districts the series includes 782xxxx/783xxxx charter LEAs, the combined State Schools row (799, FY2021+; individual State Schools rows 7991893-7991895 in FY2019 only — none in FY2020), and the Dept. of Corrections (890). Full description▾ GOSA district/system code (FK to districts dimension), zero-padded to 3 digits; 7-digit charter and state-school codes are preserved unchanged. NULL on the statewide aggregate rows. Beyond the standard county/city districts the series includes 782xxxx/783xxxx charter LEAs, the combined State Schools row (799, FY2021+; individual State Schools rows 7991893-7991895 in FY2019 only — none in FY2020), and the Dept. of Corrections (890). Joins districts; adds its label columns.
`school_code`School Code	string	—	—	yes	GOSA school code (composite FK to schools dimension with district_code). Always NULL in this topic (enforced by a quality check) — no school-level detail is published for this metric. Full description▾ GOSA school code (composite FK to schools dimension with district_code). Always NULL in this topic (enforced by a quality check) — no school-level detail is published for this metric. Joins schools; adds its label columns.
`num_el_exits`Number EL Exits	integer	count	—	yes	Number of English Learner students who exited the EL program during the fiscal year. NULL when the bronze source suppressed the cell as TFS (too few students); published values are always 10 or more. State rows are never suppressed. Full description▾ Number of English Learner students who exited the EL program during the fiscal year. NULL when the bronze source suppressed the cell as TFS (too few students); published values are always 10 or more. State rows are never suppressed.
`num_el_students`Number EL Students	integer	count	—	yes	Total English Learner enrollment for the fiscal year — the denominator of el_exit_rate. NULL when suppressed as TFS; suppressed only when num_el_exits is also suppressed (enforced by a quality check). State rows are never suppressed. Full description▾ Total English Learner enrollment for the fiscal year — the denominator of el_exit_rate. NULL when suppressed as TFS; suppressed only when num_el_exits is also suppressed (enforced by a quality check). State rows are never suppressed.
`el_exit_rate`EL Exit Rate	number	proportion	—	yes	Share of English Learner students who exited EL services during the year, on a 0-1 scale. Full description▾ EL program exit rate on the 0-1 scale (0.064 = 6.4%; bronze publishes 0-100 and is divided by 100 per data-cleaning-standards §4). NULL whenever either num_el_exits or num_el_students is suppressed: in FY2019-2023 the bronze co-suppresses all three cells, and in FY2024 GOSA published numeric rates even for the 130 district rows with suppressed counts — those rates are unverifiable and are NULLed by the transform (recorded in the manifest). Where published, the rate reconciles with num_el_exits / num_el_students within 0.0006 (enforced by a quality check).

Filters

Query parameters the fact endpoint accepts. Comma-separated values are OR within a parameter; multiple parameters AND together.

Parameter	Kind	Allowed values	Notes
`year`	year_exact	any value	—
`year_min`	year_range	any value	—
`year_max`	year_range	any value	—
`detail`	detail	`districtsstates`	enum-enforced, default: districts
`district_code`	foreign_key	any value	multi-value
`school_code`	foreign_key	any value	multi-value
`district_type`	dimension_attribute	7 allowed values▾ `commission_charter` `resa` `standard` `state_agency` `state_charter` `state_school` `state_special`	multi-value, enum-enforced

Example requests

Run these against the base URL — they return live data.

All rows (first page), districts level

curl "https://georgiacivicdata.org/api/v1/education/english_learner_exit_rate"

districts data for 2024

curl "https://georgiacivicdata.org/api/v1/education/english_learner_exit_rate?year=2024"

One district (code 601), 2024

curl "https://georgiacivicdata.org/api/v1/education/english_learner_exit_rate?district_code=601&year=2024&detail=districts"

Download 2024 as CSV

curl "https://georgiacivicdata.org/api/v1/education/english_learner_exit_rate?year=2024&format=csv"

Notes & limitations

NULL handling

Suppressed cells (too few students to report) are NULL, never zero.
Zero is a real, reported value.

Limitations

District and state detail only: school_code is always NULL — no school-level data is published for this metric. Suppressed cells are NULL (not zero): district rows below the privacy threshold are suppressed in bronze as TFS; published counts are always >= 10. A row may carry num_el_students while num_el_exits and el_exit_rate are NULL (the exit cohort is below the threshold even though total EL enrollment is not). State totals are never suppressed. el_exit_rate is NULL whenever either count is suppressed — including 130 FY2024 district rows where GOSA published unverifiable numeric rates alongside suppressed counts (treated as suppressed). The State Schools representation changes across years: individual 7-digit rows (7991893-7991895) in FY2019 only, no State Schools rows at all in FY2020, one combined 799 row from FY2021 — a long-run State Schools series requires handling both representations and the FY2020 gap.