Number of students residing in rural areas enrolled as of the end of the reporting period, both full- and part-time, with each discrete student counted once regardless of their number of courses.
Number of students residing in rural areas enrolled as of the end of the reporting period, both full- and part-time, with each discrete student counted once regardless of their number of courses.
Organizations should footnote all assumptions used. Organizations should also break down enrolled students residing in rural areas into full- and part-time.
This metric is intended to capture the number of students who live in rural environments and who are enrolled at the school as of the end of the reporting period, including both full- and part-time students. Each discrete student should be counted once, regardless of number of courses taken.
These data may be most effectively collected through either school reporting (for private schools) or government reporting (for public schools).
This metric is multi-dimensional with regard to the five dimensions of impact. It may help describe the WHO dimension when the stakeholder group represented by the metric is the stakeholder group targeted by the investment or organization. It may also help measure the HOW MUCH Scale dimension, which helps estimate the number of the targeted stakeholders experiencing the outcome. For more on the alignment of IRIS metrics to the five dimensions of impact, see IRIS+ and the Five Dimensions of Impact (https://iris.thegiin.org/document/iris-and-the-five-dimensions/). No single metric is sufficient to understand an impact; rather, metrics are selected as a set across all dimensions of impact. When possible, the selection of metrics to measure and describe the five dimensions should be based on best practice and evidence.
This is a submetric of School Enrollment: Total (PI2389), which has 8 other related submetrics.
June 2022 - IRIS v5.3 Released (current version)
Immaterial change. Minor revisions to definition and usage guidance for clarity.
May 2021 - IRIS v5.2 Released
Immaterial change. Minor revision to Usage Guidance for clarity.
January 2020 - IRIS v5.1 Released
No change.
May 2019 - IRIS v5.0 Released
No change.
March 2016 - IRIS v4.0 Released
Immaterial change. Minor revision to definition language for clarity.
March 2014 - IRIS v3.0 Released
Material change. Metric definition modified to provide clarity based on best practices and standard guidance.
November 2011 - IRIS v2.2 Released
No change.
February 2011 - IRIS v2.1 Released
No change.
September 2010 - IRIS v2.0 Released
New metric. School Enrollment: Rural (PI6569) was developed via the IRIS Taxonomy Development Group.