Federal Data Resources

Data Collections

• Civil Rights Data Collection (CDRC)
  The Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) collects a variety of information including student enrollment and educational programs and services, most of which is disaggregated by race/ethnicity, sex, limited English proficiency, and disability. The CRDC is a long-standing and important aspect of the ED Office for Civil Rights (OCR) overall strategy for administering and enforcing the civil rights statutes for which it is responsible. Information collected by the CRDC is also used by other ED offices as well as policy makers and researchers outside of ED.
  
  
• Common Core Data
  The Common Core of Data (CCD) is the Department of Education's primary database on public elementary and secondary education in the United States. CCD is a comprehensive, annual, national database of all public elementary and secondary schools and school districts.
  

• EDFacts Initiatives
  EDFacts is a U.S. Department of Education (ED) initiative to collect, analyze, and promote the use of high-quality, pre-kindergarten through grade 12 data. EDFacts centralizes performance data supplied by state education agencies (SEAs) with other data assets, such as financial grant information, within the Department to enable better analysis and use in policy development, planning and management. 

Reports and Tools

• Consolidated State Performance Report (CSPR)
  The Consolidated State Performance Report (CSPR) is the required annual reporting tool for California as authorized under Section 9303 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), as amended.
  

• National Center for Educational Statistics Annual Reports and Information
  The Annual Reports and Information group within the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) produces several reports each year that draw from over 25 surveys by NCES and other government agencies. These wide-ranging data sources allow our reports to provide a comprehensive view of key issues facing the U.S. education system.
  
  
• National Center for Education Statistics Data and Tools
  National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) data resources including College Navigator, DataLab, International Data Explorer, and search tools.

Other Resources

• Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) Data
  Access to data collected pursuant to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), which is a law that makes available a free appropriate public education to eligible children with disabilities throughout the nation and ensures special education and related services to those children.
  
  
• Institute of Educational Science (IES)
  The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) is the statistics, research, and evaluation arm of the U.S. Department of Education. The IES is independent and non-partisan with a mission to provide scientific evidence on which to ground education practice and policy and to share this information in formats that are useful and accessible to educators, parents, policy makers, researchers, and the public.