U.S. K-12 School Directory & Performance Metrics - Five Years

**Overview**
SchoolDigger's Five Year dataset delivers five years of normalized, analysis-ready K-12 education data — ideal for trend analysis, year-over-year comparisons, and longitudinal research. Covers 136,000+ 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**
- Track school performance trends over time for research and policy analysis
- Enrich property listings with multi-year school quality trajectories for real estate platforms
- Train time-series ML models with historical school performance as a feature
- Identify improving or declining schools and districts for investment decisions
- Benchmark year-over-year changes in demographics, graduation rates, and spending

**Product details**
20 relational tables delivered as Delta tables in Unity Catalog, with five years of historical data:
- 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

**Also available**
- **One Year** — current-year snapshot for applications that don't need history
- **Ten Years** — full decade of historical data for deep longitudinal analysis
- **Free Sample (Colorado)** — try before you buy with instant access

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**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