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

K-12 school and district data for all 50 U.S. states and DC: 5 years of test scores, rankings, demographics, student/teacher ratios, free/reduced lunch data, per-pupil spending, and more for 120,000+ schools and 18,500+ districts. Updated quarterly. Same comprehensive data as our 10-year product with a shorter historical window. Trusted by leading real estate, EdTech, and research organizations since 2006. Ready for analysis, data display, AI/ML pipelines, or integration into your applications. Free sample available.

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.

SchoolDigger 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.

Collecting nationwide school performance data is notoriously difficult. Each state publishes in different formats — Excel spreadsheets, SAS files, massive PDFs, difficult-to-navigate websites. SchoolDigger has been doing this work since 2006, continuously monitoring all 50 state data sources and normalizing everything into one consistent data set. The result: one clean quarterly data delivery instead of 50 separate data pipelines.

You may download a free sample of this product here .

• 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-calculated statewide rankings, including elementary, middle, and high school rankings, district rankings, and city rankings. Rankings include both a 0-5 star rating and a numerical statewide rank (e.g., 145th out of 750 elementary schools).
• ESSA-compliant average spending per student at the school building level.
• School reviews submitted by SchoolDigger.com visitors.

• Real estate platforms: Display school quality metrics alongside property listings.
• EdTech product analysis: Measure whether districts using your product show improved test scores.
• Property investment & REIT analysis: Evaluate school quality as a factor in residential property valuation.
• AI and machine learning: Training data for location-aware models, school recommendation engines, or grounding LLM responses with authoritative school data.
• Policy and academic research: Analyze trends in performance, funding, demographics, and policy impact over 5 years.
• Neighborhood analysis: Identify high-performing schools in underserved areas.

• 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 .
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