The Common Core of Data (CCD) is a program of the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics that annually collects fiscal and non-fiscal data about all public schools, public school districts and state education agencies in the United States. The data are supplied by state education agency officials and include information that describes schools and school districts, including name, address, and phone number; descriptive information about students and staff, including demographics; and fiscal data, including revenues and current expenditures.
CCD Data Tools
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Build a Table This application enables users to create customized tables of CCD public school data for states, counties, MSA's, districts and schools using data from multiple years. |
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Search For Public Schools Use the Search For Public Schools locator to retrieve information on public schools from CCD's databases. |
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Search For Public School Districts Use the Search For Public School Districts locator to retrieve information on public school districts from CCD's databases. |
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Additional Data Tools The CCD contains much useful data in databases and downloadable files. NCES has developed powerful application tools to assist everyone from the casual browser to the serious researcher to search for and extract the information they need. |
Highlights
How are our nation's public elementary and secondary schools configured in terms of grade range? How is the number of students distributed among the various configurations? Newly produced by NCES using school year 2005-2006 CCD data, the two data tables present the number of regular publc schools with membership and number of students in these schools in the 50 states and D.C. in each of the different combinations of lowest and highest grades offered.
New Classificatory Scheme for Identification of Rural Locale Codes"Locale codes" are derived from a classification system originally developed by NCES in the 1980's to describe a school's location ranging from "large city" to "rural."
Recent Publications
June 26, 2008:
Characteristics of the 100 Largest Public Elementary and Secondary School Districts in the United States: 2005-06This annual report provides basic information from the Common Core of Data about the nation's largest public school districts in the 2005-06 school year.
April 17, 2008:
Data File: Common Core of Data, School District Financial Survey FY 2005, Revised Version 1bThis data file and documentation contain finance data for public elementary and secondary education at the school district level, for fiscal year 2005, school year 2004-05.
April 15, 2008:
Revenues and Expenditures for Public Elementary and Secondary Education: School Year 2005-06 (Fiscal Year 2006)This brief publication contains basic revenue and expenditure data, by state, for public elementary and secondary education for school year 2005-06.
April 10, 2008:
Findings from the Pilot Teacher Compensation Survey: School Year 2005-06This brief publication contains summary data from the research and development effort to collect individual salary and demographic data on public school teachers.
