National and State-Level School Discipline Data 2011-12

The United States Department of Education provides data on all disciplinary actions for the 2011-12 school year. It includes separate spreadsheets for the nation and each state, with breakdowns for students with and without disabilities. The dataset is part of the Civil Rights Data Collection.

Use Cases

• Compare disciplinary action rates for students with disabilities versus students without disabilities across states.
• Analyze national trends in school discipline for the 2011-12 academic year using aggregated state data.
• Examine state-level variations in disciplinary actions reported in the Civil Rights Data Collection.

Strengths

• Data is provided by the authoritative U.S. Department of Education.
• Covers a complete national scope with state-level breakdowns for the 2011-12 period.
• Separates data for students with and without disabilities, enabling subgroup analysis.

Limitations

• Data is over a decade old, limiting analysis of current trends.
• Available only in XLS format, which may require conversion for modern data science workflows.
• The specific number of records, columns, and file size are unknown.

Provenance

Source

U.S. Department of Education

Collection Method

Collected via the Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC).

Time Range

2011-12 school year

Freshness

Last updated in August 2023, but the underlying data is from the 2011-12 school year.

Geography

United States, with national and state-level coverage