Governor's Office of Student Achievement (GOSA) HOPE Eligibility dataset

Governor's Office of Student Achievement (GOSA) HOPE Eligibility dataset. For every Georgia public high school, school district, and the state as a whole, reports the number of graduating seniors who met the academic eligibility criteria for Georgia's HOPE scholarship program. Three metrics: num_graduates (regular graduates), num_hope_eligible (subset that met HOPE academic eligibility), and hope_eligible_rate (the share that met eligibility, on a 0-1 decimal scale). Coverage: spring 2004 through spring 2024 (21 files; filename year = spring graduation year). No demographic / gender / race breakdowns — every row is the all-students total. There is a substantive series break between 2006 and 2007: state-level percent eligible drops from ~62% (2006) to ~38% (2007+). This reflects a real methodology change in HOPE eligibility determination, not a data-processing artifact: beginning with the high school graduating class of 2007, the Georgia Student Finance Commission (GSFC) began computing each student's HOPE GPA directly from electronic high-school transcript data (the GSFC-calculated HOPE GPA) rather than relying on the school-reported GPA used previously. The break is preserved as published, not 'fixed'. Treat 2004-2006 and 2007-2024 as separate eras when comparing percentages.

Filterable categorical columns: none

Detail levels available: districts, schools, states (default: schools)

Year coverage: 2004–2024 (21 years, no gaps)

NULL handling: suppressed cells are NULL (not zero); zero is a real value.

Source: Governor's Office of Student Achievement (GOSA)