For over 15 years, SchoolDigger.com has provided millions of parents with essential metrics about schools and school performance. Nationwide performance data for schools has been incredibly difficult to collect - each state publishes data in different ways, from Excel spreadsheets to huge SAS files to massive PDFs to difficult-to-navigate websites. The folks at SchoolDigger continuously monitor and collect this data and present it as one comprehensive data set, making it a no-brainer for companies to use for nationwide cases, including analysis, data display, and much more.  

This free sample includes data for the state of Ohio and gives your team the opportunity to get comfortable with the data set. The data set for all states and DC is available as a separate product and can be found at these links:

   U.S. Nationwide School Directory & Performance Metrics – 1 year.

   U.S. Nationwide School Directory & Performance Metrics – 5 years.

   U.S. Nationwide School Directory & Performance Metrics – 10 years.

Key Data includes:

• School directory, including name, address, county, phone number, url, grades served and lat/long for over 120,000 public, charter and private schools.
• District directory, including name, address, grades served and member schools for over 18,000 districts.
• Five years of student metrics, including student body count, ethnicity, pupil/teacher ratios, and free-reduced lunch program percentages.
• Five years of test score proficiencies at the state/district/building/test/subject/grade level.
• Five years of SchoolDigger-calculated state-wide rankings, including elementary, middle and high school rankings lists, district ranking lists and city ranking lists.
• NEW! ESSA-compliant average spending per student at the school building level.
• School reviews submitted by SchoolDigger website visitors.

Use Cases include:

• Real estate websites: supply metrics and information about nearby schools in a property listing.
• School and district performance analysis: determine which schools perform better under different metrics (for example, student academic growth, charter schools vs. magnet schools vs. regular schools, student outcomes in low-income communities, spending per student vs. outcomes).
• Neighborhood analysis: discover high-performing schools in under-performing neighborhoods.
• School and district autocomplete/selection lists: give your customer easy access to a list of schools and districts.
• Analyze your product's effectiveness: e.g. are math scores generally higher in districts that use my online learning product?

Need Help? Have Questions?

• We are happy to answer any questions you might have about our product. Contact us at the email below.
• If you are looking for more transactional data instead of a bulk download, you might be interested in our SchoolDigger API .