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

**Overview**
SchoolDigger's Ten Year dataset delivers a full decade of normalized, analysis-ready K-12 education data — the deepest historical view available. Ideal for longitudinal research, policy impact analysis, and long-term trend modeling. 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**
- Conduct longitudinal research on school performance, funding, and demographic shifts
- Model long-term trends in graduation rates, test scores, and spending for policy analysis
- Build decade-spanning time-series models with school performance as a feature
- Identify sustained improvement or decline patterns across schools and districts
- Compare pre- and post-policy outcomes with multi-year baseline data

**Product details**
20 relational tables delivered as Delta tables in Unity Catalog, with ten 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
- **Five Years** — five years of historical data for medium-range trend 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