A Study on the Impact of School Consolidation on Student Academic Achievement

Authors

Timothy Stehulak, The College of Wooster

Abstract

Many school districts have recently made decisions to consolidate the number of schools within their respective district boundaries. This study examines the impact of school consolidation on student achievement. A sample of schools in the metropolitan Detroit area, an area in which consolidation has occurred, is examined. Three techniques are used to estimate the impacts at the individual school level, and the results are mixed but suggest that there is a negative impact or no impact at all from school consolidation.

Advisor

Burnell, James

Department

Economics

Recommended Citation

Stehulak, Timothy, "A Study on the Impact of School Consolidation on Student Academic Achievement" (2013). Senior Independent Study Theses. Paper 788.
https://openworks.wooster.edu/independentstudy/788

Disciplines

Infrastructure | Labor Economics | Public Affairs

Keywords

economics, schools, consolidation, academic achievement

Publication Date

2013

Degree Granted

Bachelor of Arts

Document Type

Senior Independent Study Thesis