Sources
- NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 school and district directory, membership, staff and school meals data, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal.
- NCES and Census Bureau F-33 School District Finance Survey, fiscal year 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. We label these figures "2020 finance data". Dollars are nominal, not inflation adjusted. 2020 is the latest finance year the portal provides.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026.
Coverage
The site covers 100,237 open public schools and 19,630 districts and education agencies in the 50 states, DC, the US territories, the Bureau of Indian Education and the Department of Defense Education Activity. Closed, inactive and future schools are excluded.
Rules
- A blank means not available, not applicable or suppressed. We never invent, estimate or impute values, and we hide a metric rather than show zero.
- Student-teacher ratio, free and reduced lunch share and spending per pupil are calculated only when both inputs are reported.
- State and US averages use only the schools or districts reporting both values.
- Ratio and spending rankings include only districts with 1,000 or more students.
- We never rank schools or districts by free and reduced lunch share. See free and reduced lunch.
- The Title I and magnet fields are blank in the current data, so we do not show them.
Names
Source names are often in capitals or abbreviated. For display we convert them to title case and expand common abbreviations (for example "H S" to High School and "EL" to Elementary). Where a district name is only a place name, we show it as "County Public Schools" when it matches the county, or otherwise add "School District". The original name is shown on the page. Web addresses use the source identifiers unchanged.
Find my school district
The ZIP code lookup lists districts that have a school or district office with that ZIP code in their NCES address. It is not a boundary map.
Attribution
Data: US Department of Education, NCES (public domain); Urban Institute Education Data Portal (ODC-By 1.0).