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New Haven Public Schools — School Assignment
Centralized student-to-school assignment system with a school information platform for New Haven families, including an admission-risk API that estimates each family's chances under the district's neighborhood-zone and sibling priorities.
Target population
Families applying to New Haven Public Schools through the district's school-choice process
Key outcomes
- Live application feedback cut the risk of going unplaced by 58% across the New Haven and Chilean choice systems
- Admission-risk API estimating each family's assignment probabilities, including neighborhood-zone and sibling priorities
Team
- Christopher Neilson — Lead
- Adam Kapor — Research Collaborator
- Seth Zimmerman — Research Collaborator