SLDS Webinar: School-Level Poverty Measures: An Exploratory Pilot Project

In 2019, 15 states received supplemental funding to their SLDS Grant Program awards to help explore alternative measures of student poverty. Part of this project involves testing the accuracy and usefulness of statistically modeled household income estimates from the National Center of Education Statistics’ Spatially Interpolated Demographic Estimates (SIDE) Project. Representatives from SEAs in South Carolina and Virginia share their approaches to collecting and preparing student address information for use with SIDE, including their methods of geocoding addresses.