Mission Matters: The Cost of Small High Schools Revisited

Autor/inn/en	Stiefel, Leanna; Schwartz, Amy Ellen; Iatarola, Patrice; Chellman, Colin C.
Titel	Mission Matters: The Cost of Small High Schools Revisited
Quelle	In: Economics of Education Review, 28 (2009) 5, S.585-599 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0272-7757
DOI	10.1016/j.econedurev.2009.01.005
Schlagwörter	Urban Schools; High Schools; School Restructuring; Small Schools; Government School Relationship; School Business Relationship; Financial Support; Costs; School Size; Expenditure per Student; New York + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; High school; Oberschule; Schulreformplan; Schulumwandlung; Finanzielle Förderung; Cost; Kosten
Abstract	With the financial support of several large foundations and the federal government, creating small schools has become a prominent high school reform strategy in many large American cities. While some research supports this strategy, little research assesses the relative costs of these smaller schools. We use data on over 200 New York City high schools, from 1996 through 2003, to estimate school cost functions relating per pupil expenditures to school size, controlling for school output and quality, student characteristics, and school organization. We find that the structure of costs differs across schools depending upon mission--comprehensive or themed. At their current levels of outputs, themed schools minimize per pupil costs at smaller enrollments than comprehensive schools, but these optimally sized themed schools also cost more per pupil than optimally sized comprehensive schools. We also find that both themed and comprehensive high schools at actual sizes are smaller than their optimal sizes. (Contains 2 figures and 7 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10