diff --git a/common/djangoapps/track/admin.py b/common/djangoapps/track/admin.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 1b2d92006502c385f43690275377bc30b7930d8e..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/common/djangoapps/track/admin.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-'''
-django admin pages for courseware model
-'''
-
-
-from django.contrib import admin
-
-from track.models import TrackingLog
-
-admin.site.register(TrackingLog)
diff --git a/common/djangoapps/track/backends/django.py b/common/djangoapps/track/backends/django.py
deleted file mode 100644
index bb155f50456da29e83eb2ed9d9d635da5bdbc627..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/common/djangoapps/track/backends/django.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,89 +0,0 @@
-"""
-Event tracker backend that saves events to a Django database.
-
-"""
-
-# TODO: this module is very specific to the event schema, and is only
-# brought here for legacy support. It should be updated when the
-# schema changes or eventually deprecated.
-
-
-import logging
-
-from django.db import models
-from django.utils.encoding import python_2_unicode_compatible
-
-from track.backends import BaseBackend
-
-log = logging.getLogger('track.backends.django')
-
-
-LOGFIELDS = [
-    'username',
-    'ip',
-    'event_source',
-    'event_type',
-    'event',
-    'agent',
-    'page',
-    'time',
-    'host',
-]
-
-
-@python_2_unicode_compatible
-class TrackingLog(models.Model):
-    """
-    Defines the fields that are stored in the tracking log database.
-
-    .. pii: Stores a great deal of PII as it is an event tracker of browsing history, unused and empty on edx.org
-    .. pii_types: username, ip, other
-    .. pii_retirement: retained
-    """
-
-    dtcreated = models.DateTimeField(u'creation date', auto_now_add=True)
-    username = models.CharField(max_length=32, blank=True)
-    ip = models.CharField(max_length=32, blank=True)
-    event_source = models.CharField(max_length=32)
-    event_type = models.CharField(max_length=512, blank=True)
-    event = models.TextField(blank=True)
-    agent = models.CharField(max_length=256, blank=True)
-    page = models.CharField(max_length=512, blank=True, null=True)
-    time = models.DateTimeField(u'event time')
-    host = models.CharField(max_length=64, blank=True)
-
-    class Meta(object):
-        app_label = 'track'
-        db_table = 'track_trackinglog'
-
-    def __str__(self):
-        fmt = (
-            u"[{self.time}] {self.username}@{self.ip}: "
-            u"{self.event_source}| {self.event_type} | "
-            u"{self.page} | {self.event}"
-        )
-        return fmt.format(self=self)
-
-
-class DjangoBackend(BaseBackend):
-    """Event tracker backend that saves to a Django database"""
-    def __init__(self, name='default', **options):
-        """
-        Configure database used by the backend.
-
-        :Parameters:
-
-          - `name` is the name of the database as specified in the project
-            settings.
-
-        """
-        super(DjangoBackend, self).__init__(**options)
-        self.name = name
-
-    def send(self, event):
-        field_values = {x: event.get(x, '') for x in LOGFIELDS}
-        tldat = TrackingLog(**field_values)
-        try:
-            tldat.save(using=self.name)
-        except Exception as e:  # pylint: disable=broad-except
-            log.exception(e)
diff --git a/common/djangoapps/track/backends/tests/test_django.py b/common/djangoapps/track/backends/tests/test_django.py
deleted file mode 100644
index dac6368c5e624d7a66e28e1df4324d22d48fd42e..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/common/djangoapps/track/backends/tests/test_django.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-
-
-from django.test import TestCase
-
-from track.backends.django import DjangoBackend, TrackingLog
-
-
-class TestDjangoBackend(TestCase):
-    def setUp(self):
-        super(TestDjangoBackend, self).setUp()
-        self.backend = DjangoBackend()
-
-    def test_django_backend(self):
-        event = {
-            'username': 'test',
-            'time': '2013-01-01T12:01:00-05:00'
-        }
-        self.backend.send(event)
-
-        results = list(TrackingLog.objects.all())
-
-        self.assertEqual(len(results), 1)
-        self.assertEqual(results[0].username, 'test')
-
-        # Check if time is stored in UTC
-        self.assertEqual(str(results[0].time), '2013-01-01 17:01:00+00:00')
diff --git a/common/djangoapps/track/models.py b/common/djangoapps/track/models.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 0aad04eaac1fd0719d282ed04c5264b892011ce6..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/common/djangoapps/track/models.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-# pylint: disable=unused-import, missing-docstring
-
-
-from track.backends.django import TrackingLog
diff --git a/common/djangoapps/track/tests/test_logs.py b/common/djangoapps/track/tests/test_logs.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 87c8af2bb9eb39f8d1d08b03436f8f3243e0bbfc..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/common/djangoapps/track/tests/test_logs.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,61 +0,0 @@
-"""Tests that tracking data are successfully logged"""
-
-
-import unittest
-
-import mock
-from django.conf import settings
-from django.test import TestCase
-from django.urls import reverse
-from six import unichr
-
-from track.models import TrackingLog
-from track.views import user_track
-
-
-@unittest.skip("TODO: these tests were not being run before, and now that they are they're failing")
-@unittest.skipUnless(settings.ROOT_URLCONF == 'lms.urls', 'Test only valid in lms')
-class TrackingTest(TestCase):
-    """
-    Tests that tracking logs correctly handle events
-    """
-
-    def test_post_answers_to_log(self):
-        """
-        Checks that student answer requests submitted to track.views via POST
-        are correctly logged in the TrackingLog db table
-        """
-        requests = [
-            {"event": "my_event", "event_type": "my_event_type", "page": "my_page"},
-            {"event": "{'json': 'object'}", "event_type": unichr(512), "page": "my_page"}
-        ]
-        with mock.patch.dict('django.conf.settings.FEATURES', {'ENABLE_SQL_TRACKING_LOGS': True}):
-            for request_params in requests:
-                response = self.client.post(reverse(user_track), request_params)
-                self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 200)
-                self.assertEqual(response.content, 'success')
-                tracking_logs = TrackingLog.objects.order_by('-dtcreated')
-                log = tracking_logs[0]
-                self.assertEqual(log.event, request_params["event"])
-                self.assertEqual(log.event_type, request_params["event_type"])
-                self.assertEqual(log.page, request_params["page"])
-
-    def test_get_answers_to_log(self):
-        """
-        Checks that student answer requests submitted to track.views via GET
-        are correctly logged in the TrackingLog db table
-        """
-        requests = [
-            {"event": "my_event", "event_type": "my_event_type", "page": "my_page"},
-            {"event": "{'json': 'object'}", "event_type": unichr(512), "page": "my_page"}
-        ]
-        with mock.patch.dict('django.conf.settings.FEATURES', {'ENABLE_SQL_TRACKING_LOGS': True}):
-            for request_params in requests:
-                response = self.client.get(reverse(user_track), request_params)
-                self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 200)
-                self.assertEqual(response.content, 'success')
-                tracking_logs = TrackingLog.objects.order_by('-dtcreated')
-                log = tracking_logs[0]
-                self.assertEqual(log.event, request_params["event"])
-                self.assertEqual(log.event_type, request_params["event_type"])
-                self.assertEqual(log.page, request_params["page"])
diff --git a/common/djangoapps/track/views/__init__.py b/common/djangoapps/track/views/__init__.py
index ddfced072366adf9c7230092a19c1601304165e1..a434a1dc43b598a4f99719ee1f78129342f2ca8d 100644
--- a/common/djangoapps/track/views/__init__.py
+++ b/common/djangoapps/track/views/__init__.py
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ from ipware.ip import get_ip
 
 from edxmako.shortcuts import render_to_response
 from track import contexts, shim, tracker
-from track.models import TrackingLog
 
 
 def log_event(event):
@@ -159,8 +158,7 @@ def task_track(request_info, task_info, event_type, event, page=None):
     # about the task in which it is running.
     full_event = dict(event, **task_info)
 
-    # All fields must be specified, in case the tracking information is
-    # also saved to the TrackingLog model.  Get values from the task-level
+    # Get values from the task-level
     # information, or just add placeholder values.
     with eventtracker.get_tracker().context('edx.course.task', contexts.course_context_from_url(page)):
         event = {
@@ -177,31 +175,3 @@ def task_track(request_info, task_info, event_type, event, page=None):
         }
 
     log_event(event)
-
-
-@login_required
-@ensure_csrf_cookie
-def view_tracking_log(request, args=''):
-    """View to output contents of TrackingLog model.  For staff use only."""
-    if not request.user.is_staff:
-        return redirect('/')
-    nlen = 100
-    username = ''
-    if args:
-        for arg in args.split('/'):
-            if arg.isdigit():
-                nlen = int(arg)
-            if arg.startswith('username='):
-                username = arg[9:]
-
-    record_instances = TrackingLog.objects.all().order_by('-time')
-    if username:
-        record_instances = record_instances.filter(username=username)
-    record_instances = record_instances[0:nlen]
-
-    # fix dtstamp
-    fmt = '%a %d-%b-%y %H:%M:%S'  # "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z%z"
-    for rinst in record_instances:
-        rinst.dtstr = rinst.time.replace(tzinfo=pytz.utc).astimezone(pytz.timezone('US/Eastern')).strftime(fmt)
-
-    return render_to_response('tracking_log.html', {'records': record_instances})
diff --git a/common/djangoapps/util/tests/test_db.py b/common/djangoapps/util/tests/test_db.py
index 8fdcf40b9f06c0de2176359fc7df0a18c8ae5afc..b64e69768a1a8648f1f90b861c5fb14d1b3e800b 100644
--- a/common/djangoapps/util/tests/test_db.py
+++ b/common/djangoapps/util/tests/test_db.py
@@ -223,6 +223,7 @@ class MigrationTests(TestCase):
     """
 
     @unittest.skip("Need to skip as part of renaming a field in schedules app. This will be unskipped in DE-1825")
+    @unittest.skip("This is also being skipped as part of the dropping of tracking tables for DEPR-57")
     @override_settings(MIGRATION_MODULES={})
     def test_migrations_are_in_sync(self):
         """