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Comprehensive K-12 school and district data for all 50 U.S. states and DC: 10 years of test scores, rankings, demographics, student/teacher ratios, free/reduced lunch data, per-pupil spending, graduation rates, dropout rates, chronic absenteeism, and more for 120,000+ schools and 18,500+ districts. Delivered as Apache Parquet files via direct S3 access — query in-place with Athena, Redshift, Spark, or any Parquet-compatible tool. Data updates monthly with no revision downloads needed. 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.
Overview
SchoolDigger's flagship data product gives you 10 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 monthly data delivery instead of 50 separate data pipelines.
S3 Access: Query In-Place, Always Current
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 .
What's Included
- 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.
- Ten years of student metrics, including enrollment counts, student ethnicity breakdowns, pupil/teacher ratios, and free/reduced lunch program percentages.
- Ten 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).
- Ten years of SchoolDigger rankings for elementary, middle, and high schools, by state — both star ratings (0-5) and numerical statewide ranks.
- Ten years of district and city ranking lists.
- Ten years of ESSA-compliant average spending per student at the building level.
- Ten years of graduation rates, dropout rates, and chronic absenteeism at the state, district, and school level.
- School reviews contributed by SchoolDigger users.
Product Details
- 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 10 years
- Data format: Apache Parquet (columnar, compressed)
- Delivery: AWS Data Exchange for Amazon S3 (direct S3 access)
Why SchoolDigger?
- 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 (e.g., 145th out of 750 elementary schools), calculated within each state and school level. Ten years of rankings history lets you track performance trends over time.
- Monthly updates — Always current data.
- Trusted by industry — Powering real estate platforms, EdTech products, academic research, and property investment analysis.
Use Cases
- Real estate platforms: Display school quality metrics alongside property listings. Buyers consistently rank school quality as a top factor in home purchasing decisions.
- EdTech product analysis: Measure whether districts using your product show improved test scores compared to non-adopters.
- Property investment & REIT analysis: Evaluate school quality as a factor in residential property valuation and neighborhood desirability.
- AI and machine learning: Ground LLM responses with authoritative school data or enrich location-based models with school attributes.
- Policy and academic research: Analyze trends in performance, funding, demographics, and policy impact over 10 years.
- Contact and outreach lists: Target schools by type, size, demographics, or geography.
Need Help? Have Questions?
- 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 .
- See all our available products here .
Highlights
- Query in-place via direct S3 access — Apache Parquet files readable by Amazon Athena, Redshift Spectrum, EMR, Spark, Pandas, DuckDB, or any Parquet-compatible tool. No file downloads or revision management. Data updates appear automatically.
- 10 years of comprehensive data: 120,000+ schools and 18,500+ districts across all 50 states and DC. Includes test score proficiencies, SchoolDigger rankings (0-5 stars + numerical rank), demographics, per-pupil spending, graduation rates, dropout rates, and chronic absenteeism.
- 20 years of data collection experience since 2006. All 50 states normalized into one consistent schema — no juggling different formats. Trusted by leading real estate, EdTech, and research organizations for school data. Ten years of trend data for longitudinal analysis.
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You will receive access to the following data sets.
Data set name | Type | Historical revisions | Future revisions | Sensitive information | Data dictionaries | Data samples |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
U.S. Nationwide School Directory & Performance Metrics - 10 years (S3 Access) | All historical revisions | All future revisions | Not included |
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