Schools and Staffing Survey: Tables Library Data

<b>About SASS<br></b>The Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) was conducted by NCES seven times between 1987 through 2011. SASS was an integrated study public and private school districts, schools, principals, and teachers designed to provide descriptive data on the context of elementary and secondary education. SASS covered a wide range of topics from teacher demand, teacher and principal characteristics, general conditions in schools, principals' and teachers' perceptions of school climate and problems in their schools, teacher compensation, district hiring and retention practices, to basic characteristics of the student population. After 2010–11, NCES redesigned SASS and named it the National Teacher and Principal Survey (NTPS) to reflect the redesigned study's focus on the teacher and principal labor market and on the state of K-12 school staff. NCES first conducted NTPS in 2015–16.<br><b><br></b><b>Data Organization</b><br>Each table has an associated excel and excel SE file, which are grouped together in a folder in the dataset (one folder per table). The folders are named based on the excel file names, as they were when downloaded from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) website.<br><br>In the SASS folder, there is a catalog csv that provides a crosswalk between the folder names and the table titles.<br><br>The documentation folder contains (1) codebooks for SASS generated in NCES datalabs, (2) questionnaires for SASS downloaded from the study website and (3) documentation and user manuals related to SASS found in the NCES resource library.<b></b>