Austin, TX, USA
Lost Learner: Pioneering a Future Where Every Student Counts
Problem Statement
School districts need help tracking and re-engaging students who have become unaccounted for or chronically absent. This issue negatively impacts educational outcomes and funding.
Overview of Need
School districts face significant challenges in locating and re-engaging missing or chronically absent students, which can hinder educational attainment and result in substantial funding losses. Lost Learners leverages proprietary algorithms to address this critical need. Lost Learners empowers districts to locate and re-engage students efficiently, ensuring consistent attendance, safeguarding funding, and enhancing educational success.
Methodolgy
The process begins with a Data Sharing Agreement between the school district and Lost Learners. Schools then securely upload the last known addresses of unaccounted (PEIMS 98) or chronically absent students. Our proprietary algorithms evaluate the likelihood that these students have moved, generating actionable insights for schools to re-engage them. Throughout this process, privacy and data security remain paramount.
Canvassing Support
In partnership with professional canvassing agencies, Lost Learners offers a turnkey solution for locating and re-engaging unaccounted students. These partnerships ensure that schools can efficiently implement the strategies developed through our platform.
Sole Source Solution
Our sole-source solution utilizes advanced technology unmatched by any other provider, making us uniquely equipped to assist schools. We gather opt-in, anonymized location data from mobile devices across the U.S., accurately linking each device to specific locations. By cross-referencing detailed parcel data with students' last known addresses, we identify the mobile device IDs that are most frequently present within those parcels over time. This analysis, combined with regional and date-specific data, allows us to determine with high probability whether students still reside at their previous addresses or have moved. Each unaccounted student is then categorized into one of three groups: Likely Not Moved, Potentially Moved, or Likely Moved.
Recent Example of Success
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, serving 142,733 students, needed to locate 3,330 missing students. Our technology successfully located 2,997 of them, achieving a 90% match rate. Of the identified students, 1,043 were categorized as 'Likely Not Moved,' 739 as 'Potentially Moved,' and 1,215 as 'Likely Moved.' As a result, 1,229 missing students were successfully re-enrolled in CMS, with an estimated fiscal impact of approximately $13.8 million.
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High-Yield Actionable Intelligence
Provide the last known address, and Lost Learners does the rest. After comparing two timeframes, we classify each case as Likely Not Moved, Potentially Moved, or Likely Moved. For the latter two, we return the family’s new address anywhere in the U.S., giving you actionable intelligence to save time and resources.
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