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School Data Profile

The collection of real federal data OpenSchoolData presents for each school, including NCES enrollment, demographics, student-teacher ratio, and EDFacts proficiency and graduation rates.

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How It Works

Each school profile on OpenSchoolData combines data from multiple federal sources to give parents a comprehensive picture of a school. From NCES Common Core of Data (2022), we show school-level enrollment, racial and ethnic demographics, free/reduced lunch eligibility, English Learner percentage, special education percentage, student-teacher ratio, school type (regular, charter, magnet), Title I status, and grade levels served. From EDFacts (2020), we show math and reading proficiency rates, these are reported at the district level and applied to all schools in that district. For high schools, we also show graduation rates from EDFacts (2019), also at the district level. We are transparent about data granularity: enrollment and demographics are school-specific, while proficiency and graduation data reflect district averages. This distinction matters because individual schools within a district can perform very differently from the district average. We present this data without proprietary scoring so parents can evaluate schools on their own terms, weighing the factors that matter most to their family.

Related Terms

  • Proficiency Rate, The percentage of students at a school who meet or exceed grade-level standards on state-mandated standardized tests in reading and math.
  • Graduation Rate, The percentage of students who earn a regular high school diploma within four years of entering ninth grade, calculated using the Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate (ACGR) method required by federal law.
  • National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), The primary federal agency for collecting, analyzing, and reporting education data in the United States, housed within the Institute of Education Sciences at the U.S. Department of Education.
  • School Accountability, The system by which schools and districts are held responsible for student outcomes, including state ratings, improvement plans, and potential interventions for chronically low-performing schools.

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Real federal data: NCES CCD enrollment (2022), EDFacts proficiency rates (2020, district-level), EDFacts graduation rates (2019, district-level).

About This Definition

This definition is part of the OpenSchoolData Education Glossary, 33 terms explaining how school performance data works in the United States. All definitions are written in plain language for parents, educators, journalists, and researchers.

School Data Profile is one of the U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment concepts that recurs across this site. The definition above is the technical answer; the paragraphs below add the practical context for how the concept connects to the NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts data behind every per-entity page on the site.

In the NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts data, this concept shapes one or more of the fields that drive the per-entity grades and rankings on this site. The methodology page describes which fields feed into which output; this glossary entry documents the underlying term.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.