U.S. School Directory & Performance Metrics - 5 yr (S3 Access)

SchoolDigger's data product gives you 5 years of normalized, analysis-ready data for every K-12 school and district in the United States — over 120,000 schools and 18,500 districts across all 50 states and DC.

This product includes the same comprehensive data as our flagship 10-year product, with a 5-year historical window. Ideal if your analysis doesn't require a full decade of trends, or if you want a lower-cost entry point to SchoolDigger data.

This product uses AWS Data Exchange for Amazon S3. You get direct read access to Apache Parquet files in our S3 bucket — no file downloads, no revision management, no storage costs on your end.

• Query in-place with Amazon Athena, Redshift Spectrum, EMR, SageMaker, or any tool that reads from S3
• Always current — when we update the data, you see it immediately
• No storage costs — data lives in our bucket, not yours
• Columnar format — Parquet delivers faster queries and lower scan costs vs. CSV/TSV

If you prefer downloadable tab-delimited flat files, see our flat file version .

• School directory, including name, address, county, phone number, URL, NCES ID, grades served, lat/long, and magnet/charter/virtual/private flags for over 120,000 public, charter, and private schools.
• District directory, including name, address, NCES ID, grades served, and member schools for over 18,500 districts.
• Five years of student metrics, including enrollment counts, student ethnicity breakdowns, pupil/teacher ratios, and free/reduced lunch program percentages.
• Five years of test score proficiencies at the state/district/school/test/subject/grade level, including performance tier breakdowns (e.g., % below proficient, % proficient, % advanced proficient).
• Five years of SchoolDigger rankings for elementary, middle, and high schools, by state — both star ratings (0-5) and numerical statewide ranks.
• Five years of district and city ranking lists.
• Five years of ESSA-compliant average spending per student at the building level.
• Five years of graduation rates, dropout rates, and chronic absenteeism at the state, district, and school level.
• School reviews contributed by SchoolDigger users.

• Update frequency: Monthly
• Data sources: SchoolDigger, NCES, 50 State Departments of Education, U.S. Census Bureau
• Geographic coverage: All 50 U.S. states + DC
• Time period: Most recent 5 years
• Data format: Apache Parquet (columnar, compressed)
• Delivery: AWS Data Exchange for Amazon S3 (direct S3 access)

• 20 years of collection experience — We handle edge cases, format changes, and state reporting quirks that trip up one-time scrapers.
• Statewide rankings done right — Our proprietary methodology converts each state's test results into both a 0-5 star rating and a numerical statewide rank, calculated within each state and school level.
• Monthly updates — Always current data.
• Trusted by industry — Powering real estate platforms, EdTech products, academic research, and property investment analysis.

• Real estate platforms: Display school quality metrics alongside property listings.
• EdTech product analysis: Compare test scores across districts using your product vs. non-adopters.
• Property investment & REIT analysis: Evaluate school quality as a factor in residential property valuation.
• AI and machine learning: Ground LLM responses with authoritative school data or enrich location-based models.
• Contact and outreach lists: Target schools by type, size, demographics, or geography.

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• For a full description of included data fields, use cases, and methodology, see our 10-year product listing .
• If you are looking for more transactional data instead of a bulk download, you might be interested in our SchoolDigger API .
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