This project is meant to be an initial look at the relationship of education and income in Davidson County to gain insight in overcoming poverty. I have a long term goal of philanthropy and this project is to further my knowledge for that journey. I will begin by exploring data from Metro Nashville Public Schools as well as TN Department of Education data. I plan to use Python to explore and clean my data then use Tableau for data visualization. This is a complex issue that will not likely be solved by this analysis alone but it will be a foundational step in that direction.

I have worked to overcome the poverty I grew up seeing in my community and have a future goal of helping others to overcome poverty. This project is to utilize the data analysis skills I have acquired while at Nashville Software School (NSS) to begin exploring what my role is in giving back to others in need.

• What high schools in MNPS have a high proportion of students who are economically disadvantaged?
• Do students who are economically disadvantaged perform at a lower level academically compared to their non-economically disadvantaged classmates?
• How can we help these high school students who are economically disadvantaged to better themselves and overcome hardships they may have encountered growing up within their families and/or communites?