Public School Locations and Administrative Data for 2021-22

The National Center for Education Statistics annually collects administrative and fiscal data for all public schools, districts, and state agencies in the United States. This 2021-22 collection includes point locations derived from physical addresses and provides characteristics on student demographics, teacher counts, and school grade span.

Use Cases

• Map school point locations using latitude and longitude coordinates for geographic analysis.
• Analyze student demographics and teacher counts across school districts to assess resource distribution.
• Filter schools by grade span to study educational infrastructure for specific age groups.
• Join administrative data with geographic points to model school accessibility and enrollment patterns.

Strengths

• Data is collected annually for all public schools, districts, and state education agencies in the United States.
• Includes multiple geographic file formats like GEOJSON, KML, and CSV for varied applications.
• Derived from the authoritative Common Core of Data (CCD) program administered by the NCES.

Limitations

• Specific row counts and column details are not provided, limiting precise assessment of dataset scale.
• Point locations are derived from reported information, which may introduce positional errors or inconsistencies.
• Data is from the 2021-22 school year and may not reflect current conditions for more recent analysis.

Provenance

Source

National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data (CCD) program.

Collection Method

Administrative data supplied by state education agency officials, with point locations derived from reported physical addresses.

Time Range

2021-2022 school year.

Freshness

Last updated in October 2024, but the core data covers the 2021-22 school year.

Geography

United States.