Introduction to Discipline-Based Education Research : Educational Statistics

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education.

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), often called The Nation’s Report Card, is the largest nationally representative and continuing assessment of what students in public and private schools in the United States know and are able to do in various subjects

The Common Core of Data (CCD) is the U.S. Department of Education's (ED) primary database on public elementary and secondary education in the United States. The CCD is a comprehensive, annual, national statistical database of all public elementary and secondary schools and Local Education Agencies (LEAs).

The Digest of Education Statistics contains a set of tables covering the broad field of American education from prekindergarten through graduate school.

Projections of Education Statistics is a report in a series begun in 1964. It includes statistics on elementary and secondary schools and degree-granting postsecondary institutions.

The NCES Education Demographic and Geographic Estimates (EDGE) program designs and develops information resources to help understand the social and spatial context of education in the U.S. It uses data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey to create custom indicators of social, economic, and housing conditions for school-age children and their parents. It also uses spatial data collected by NCES and the Census Bureau to create geographic locale indicators, school point locations, school district boundaries, and other types of data to support spatial analysis.

Provides data from the NCES Education Demographic and Geographic Estimates (EDGE) program in a map format

ED Data Express is a website designed to improve the public's ability to access and explore high-value state- and district-level education data collected by the U.S. Department of Education. The site is designed to be interactive and to present the data in a clear, easy-to-use manner, with options to download information into Excel or to explore the data within the site's grant program dashboards.