U.S. Public School District Administrative Data 2022-23

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) provides annually updated administrative characteristics for all public school districts in the United States for the 2022-23 academic year. Attributes include directory information, student and teacher counts, and grade span, collected from state education officials via the Common Core of Data (CCD) program. District boundaries are developed by the NCES EDGE program and clipped to the U.S. shoreline.

Use Cases

• Analyze the relationship between student counts and teacher counts across districts to model resource allocation.
• Map district boundaries to study geographic distribution and administrative unit density using the provided GEOJSON files.
• Examine grade span data to identify districts serving specific educational levels (elementary, secondary, unified).
• Investigate patterns in missing data flagged with codes like -1, M, -2, N, or -9 for specific administrative attributes.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from the authoritative NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) program, an official federal collection.
• Covers all public school districts in the United States, providing national scope.
• Includes both geographic boundary data (via EDGE program) and administrative attributes for the 2022-23 school year.
• Multiple file formats (GEOJSON, KML, CSV) are available for different analytical needs.

Limitations

• Specific row counts and column details for the tabular administrative data are not provided in the input.
• Missing data is indicated with non-standard codes (-1, M, -2, N, -9), requiring preprocessing for analysis.
• The administrative data is from the 2022-23 school year and may not reflect the most current conditions.

Provenance

Source

National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), U.S. Department of Education.

Collection Method

Administrative characteristics reported by state education officials and compiled by the NCES CCD program; district boundaries developed by the NCES EDGE program with the U.S. Census Bureau.

Time Range

2022-2023 academic year.

Freshness

Last updated on 2024-10-21; data reflects the 2022-23 academic year.

Geography

United States (all public school districts, boundaries clipped to U.S. shoreline).