U.S. K-12 School Directory & Performance Metrics - One Year

**Overview**
Collecting nationwide school performance data is notoriously difficult — each state publishes in different formats, from Excel spreadsheets to SAS files to difficult-to-navigate websites. SchoolDigger brings it all together into one normalized, analysis-ready dataset: 136,000+ K-12 schools and 18,500+ districts across all 50 U.S. states and D.C. Updated monthly. Trusted by real estate, EdTech, and research organizations since 2006.

**Use cases**
- Enrich property listings with school quality metrics for real estate platforms
- Power school search, comparison, and recommendation features in EdTech apps
- Train location-aware AI/ML models with school performance as a feature
- Analyze education policy impact across states, districts, and demographics
- Assess community characteristics for insurance and financial services

**Product details**
20 relational tables delivered as Delta tables in Unity Catalog:
- School and district directory with addresses, geocoded lat/lon, phone, website, grade levels, and charter/magnet/virtual flags
- Standardized test scores by school, grade, and subject
- SchoolDigger proprietary 0–5 star ratings and numerical statewide rankings for schools, districts, and cities (within-state, not cross-state normalized)
- Student demographics: enrollment by race/ethnicity, free/reduced lunch, pupil-teacher ratios
- Graduation rates, dropout rates, and chronic absenteeism
- Per-pupil spending at the school building level (federal and state/local)
- User-submitted school reviews from SchoolDigger.com visitors

**Data sources**
SchoolDigger, National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), 50 State Departments of Education, Common Core of Data (CCD), Private School Survey (PSS), U.S. Census Bureau

**Why SchoolDigger**
- 20 years of data collection experience — we handle edge cases, format changes, and state reporting quirks
- Rankings done right — proprietary methodology converts each state's test results into both a star rating and a numerical rank (e.g., 145th out of 750 elementary schools)
- Monthly updates keep your analysis current