Question 1

How many datasets does Datadory catalog for education services?

Accepted Answer

Twenty-two: twenty primary records plus two adjacent context sets. Among the primaries are six NCES records (the IPEDS census, its Trend Generator companion, NAEP, the Condition of Education, NTPS and the CCD directory), the Federal Student Aid Data Center, four international benchmarking agencies, three UK, French and ONS national collections, India's UDISE+, two commercial listing services, a 322-million-work scholarly graph and two machine-learning corpora.

Question 2

Where can I get school enrollment data by district?

Accepted Answer

Two directory systems carry it. NCES CCD publishes enrollment by grade, race/ethnicity, gender and lunch-program participation for roughly 100,000 US public schools and 18,000 districts, keyed by NCES ID. India's UDISE+ reports enrollment for about 1.47 million schools at state, district and block level, and England's Explore Education Statistics resolves pupil numbers to local authority and school.

Question 3

Can I compare college graduation rates by institution?

Accepted Answer

Yes. IPEDS graduation-rate and completions files cover 7,000+ Title IV institutions annually, joinable to charges, aid and finance components by UNITID back to 1980-81. The IPEDS Trend Generator companion record computes the same comparisons as preset questions across 12 subjects when you want the trend without building the panel yourself.

Question 4

How do I get NAEP scores by state and grade?

Accepted Answer

NAEP publishes aggregate scale scores, percentiles and achievement-level percentages for grades 4, 8 and 12 by subject, year, jurisdiction and student group - all 50 states plus DC and DoDEA schools, and 27 Trial Urban District Assessment cities. Main assessments run from 1990 onward and long-term trend series reach into the 1970s. Datadory ships them joined and typed.

Question 5

Is there data on teacher salaries and staffing?

Accepted Answer

The National Teacher & Principal Survey samples about 10,000 schools per cycle with respondent-level microdata on pay, vacancies, class sizes and working conditions, published for 2015-16, 2017-18 and 2020-21 with a predecessor series back to 1987-88. UDISE+ adds teacher and infrastructure counts for 1.47 million Indian schools.

Question 6

Which datasets track federal student aid volume by school?

Accepted Answer

The Federal Student Aid Data Center reports Title IV program volume, Pell and TEACH grants, Direct Loan portfolios, default rates and FAFSA application volumes at institution level by OPE ID - about 5,500 participating schools, award years from 2009-10 and portfolio quarters from Q1 2014. Joined to IPEDS, each campus reads as an aid-dependency profile.

Question 7

Can I benchmark education spending across countries?

Accepted Answer

Four agencies overlap deliberately. UNESCO UIS carries expenditure indicators for 200+ countries, the World Bank lists 8,450 EdStats indicators across 217 economies, OECD publishes 141 education dataflows over its 38 members, and Eurostat harmonises 156 EDUC flows for EU27, EFTA and candidate countries - each broken down by ISCED level.

Question 8

What school directories include coordinates for mapping?

Accepted Answer

France's Annuaire de l'education ships 68,940 establishment rows across 71 columns with UAI codes and coordinates, and the NCES CCD pages carry locale codes plus county and postal detail for about 100,000 US schools. Between them, a European or American territory map builds from one directory extract.

Question 9

How far back does education data go?

Accepted Answer

Deeper than most sectors. IPEDS collection years start at 1980-81, NAEP main assessments at 1990 with long-term trend into the 1970s, World Bank education series at 1970, UIS observations from 1972, and OpenAlex works from the mid-1600s. England's pupil-absence series reaches back to academic year 2006/07.

Question 10

How often does Datadory deliver education services data?

Accepted Answer

Daily, weekly, or hourly - your call. A directory feed requested at hourly resolution arrives with identical columns to the quarterly market-sizing export, so changing cadence later is configuration rather than migration. Every sample ships with the field dictionary and coverage statement attached.

The manifest

IPEDS — Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (Use the Data portal)

UIS Data Browser — UNESCO Institute for Statistics education statistics

World Bank Education Statistics (EdStats / WDI topic) — harmonized education indicators

National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) — The Nation's Report Card

Eurostat Education & Training Database (educ_* tables)

OECD Education at a Glance & OECD Data Explorer — Education topic

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