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Cooperative Education Statistics System  \nThe National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) established the National Cooperative Education Statistics System (Cooperative System) to assist in producing and maintaining comparable and uniform information and data on early childhood, elementary, and secondary education. These data are intended to be useful for policymaking at the federal, state, and local levels.  \nThe National Forum on Education Statistics (Forum) is an entity of the Cooperative System and, among its other activities, proposes principles of good practice to assist state and local education agencies (SEAs and LEAs) in meeting this purpose. The Cooperative System and the Forum are supported in these endeavors by resources from NCES.  \nPublications of the Forum do not undergo the same formal review required for products of NCES. The information and opinions published here are those of the Forum and do not represent the policy or views of NCES, the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), or the U.S. Department of Education (ED) .  \nOctober 2025  \nOther Forum publications may be found at the websites listed below.  \nThe NCES Home Page address is [http://nces.ed.gov](http://nces.ed.gov).  \nThe NCES Publications and Products address is [http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch](http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch).  \nThe Forum Home Page address is [http://nces.ed.gov/forum](http://nces.ed.gov/forum).  \nSuggested Citation  \nNational Forum on Education Statistics. (2025). Forum Guide to Student Mobility (NFES 2026-001) .  \nU.S. Department of Education. Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics.  \nForeword  \nThe Forum is pleased to present the Forum Guide to Student Mobility Data. The purpose of this document is to provide information and best practices that will help SEAs and LEAs manage data related to students who frequently change schools, with a focus on actions to minimize student learning disruptions and allow agencies to provide support for those particular students. This document focuses on best practices that SEAs, LEAs, and schools can learn from as they begin or continue to develop questions, definitions, and measures related to student mobility and chart a path to understand and support students who have experienced mobility.  \nPublication Objectives  \nThis resource aims to:  \n• explain what student mobility is and why it matters to students and schools;  \n• describe how student mobility information is measured, collected, and used by SEAsand LEAs;  \n• define actions that SEAs, LEAs, and schools can take to minimize learning disruptions caused by student mobility; and  \n• provide best practices for measuring, collecting, and using mobility data, as well as minimizing the impact of student mobility on students and schools.  \nIntended Audience  \nThe primary audience for this publication includes SEA and LEA staff who collect or use data on student mobility, as well as educators and others working to minimize disruptions to mobile students’ education and provide targeted supports to students and the schools that serve them.  \nOrganization of This Resource  \nThis resource includes the following chapters:  \n• Chapter 1 introduces student mobility; discusses why mobility matters to SEAs and LEAs; describes SEA-, LEA-, and student-level measures of student mobility; and provides examples of how different SEAs and LEAs define and use mobility measures.  \n• Chapter 2 discusses how student mobility information is measured and collected, as well  \nas how these data are used at the SEA, LEA, and student levels along with best practice recommendations for doing so.  \n• Chapter 3 focuses on policies and procedures to minimize the impact of student mobility atthe SEA, LEA, and student levels, along with structural supports that scaffold these efforts. 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