Education: Data/Statistics

This web site serves as a central guide for education data resources including high-value data sets, data visualization tools, resources for the classroom, applications created from open data and more.

Overviews of federal educational data and statistical resources are provided by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Survey and Program Areas site and the NCES Site Map.

Hosted through ICPSR, Child Care and Early Education Research Connections promotes high quality research in child care and early education and the use of that research in policy making.

College Navigator consists primarily of the latest data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), the core postsecondary education data collection program for NCES – the National Center for Education Statistics.

Partnership between ICPSR, the NSF, and the American
Educational Research Association. Focuses on education and learning in the STEM fields.

Includes the College Navigator, a data center, and a tables library.

Hosted through ICPSR and contains both public and restricted datasets from the NCAA.

Also known as The Nation's Report Card. This site provides a gateway for publications, state profiles, and data.

A dynamic data mapping tool that allows the creation of customized maps or the viewing of pre-existing maps that provide context to education demographic data.

Published by the National Center for Education Statistics.

Published by the National Center for Education Statistics.

The primary purpose of the Digest of Education Statistics is to provide a compilation of statistical information covering the broad field of American education from pre-kindergarten through graduate school. The Digest includes a selection of data from many sources, both government and private, and draws especially on the results of surveys and activities carried out by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).

A link to the National Center for Education Statistics site, this is the electronic version of an annual report submitted to Congress. This comprehensive compendium describes the current status and recent progress of education in the US, summarizing major education statistics on the status and progress at all levels of schooling, from preprimary to graduate.

Series goes back to 2004 (scroll down to see reports from previous years). Data on enrollment, attendance, staff, expenditures, and revenues.

Previous editions available through the Annual Reports Program link on this page.

DQC is a non-profit and non-partisan national advocacy organization with a mission to support state policymakers and other key leaders to promote the development and effective use of statewide longitudinal data systems.

Annual compilation of data on state tax support for higher education, 1960 to present.

Published by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.

Published by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.

See especially the portals for Education, Literacy, and Communication and Information.

Offers tools to create tables, graphs, and maps.

Contains statistics related to education systems, lifelong learning, and educational attainment.

Provides results from a number of international education surveys including TIMSS (Math/Science) and International Reading and Literacy.

From Stanford University.

Contains data about education equality, tools to visualize data, as well as an analysis of educational indicators.

Covers Europe. Provides a variety of datasets, statistics, and thematic reports.