29,320
Students enrolled at the largest public school in America — a Pennsylvania cyber charter. No building required.
Source · NCES CCD enrollment
Release v2026.07 · 102,176 schools
U.S. K–12 school database, with every source showing.
A database of 102,176 U.S. public schools with 122 documented fields each — enrollment, graduation, staffing, spending, ratings, and boundaries. Every value traces to NCES CCD, CRDC, EDFacts, Census F-33, or one of 40+ state DOE files. Facts, not scores.
District reports from $99 · no subscription · 7-day refund
Fig. 01 · One school record122 fields, each sourced
field source vintage ──────────────────── ──────────── ─────── enrollment NCES CCD 2023-24 grad_rate_4yr State DOE 2023-24 counselors_fte CRDC 2021-22 math_proficiency EDFacts 2021-22 per_pupil_spend Census F-33 FY 2022 state_rating State DOE 2023-24 attendance_boundary NCES EDGE 2023-24 feeder_relationships K12 Atlas v2026.07
…and 114 more. Every field carries its source and year.
102,176
Public schools
122
Documented fields per school
56
States + territories
49.3M
Students covered
1.32M
Feeder relationships
135,224
Attendance boundaries
Fig. 02 · Field notes
Things the dataset knows that you didn’t.
Every one of these came out of release v2026.07 — and every one is traceable to a public government file. That’s the whole product.
24%
of schools reporting counselor staffing report zero counselor FTE.
Source · CRDC staffing
46,665 vs 21,137
Schools shrinking versus schools growing, by multi-year enrollment trend.
Source · NCES CCD, multi-year
1,019
Schools graduate 99% or more of their cohort.
Source · State DOE + EDFacts grad rates
14.5:1
The median pupil-teacher ratio across all U.S. public schools.
Source · NCES CCD teacher FTE
92.6%
Connecticut’s average graduation rate — the highest of any state.
Source · CT DOE cohort rates
A parent
Two offers, two houses, two districts. The listing sites show a 9/10 and a 6/10 and won’t say why. She doesn’t want somebody’s score — she wants the class sizes, the counselor count, the graduation rate, and the source and method behind a proposed school pathway. With the source next to each number.
District Report · $99 · any U.S. district · PDF + Excel
Fig. 03 · What’s in a report
A document you can hand to anyone.
- Cover & district overview in plain prose
- Enrollment, demographics & multi-year trend
- Graduation rates & proficiency, with reporting years
- Staffing: teachers, counselors, nurses per school
- The state’s own accountability rating — in the state’s own scheme
- Per-pupil spending (Census F-33)
- School-by-school comparison tables, all 122 fields in the Excel
- “How to read this” legend + full sources & vintages appendix
Every District Report ships as a PDF for reading and an Excel workbook for working. Same data, same sources appendix, same release version.
§ Who it’s for
Same dataset. Four buyers. Four framings.
Editions · release v2026.07
Priced by geography, not by gatekeeping.
One district, one metro, one state, or the whole country. Single payment — only the National Sheet renews. Full detail on the pricing page.
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- Full district report, real data
- Sources & vintages appendix included
- Emailed to you in seconds
Per district
District Report
$99
Any U.S. district. PDF report + Excel workbook — every school, all 122 fields, legend and sources appendix.
- PDF for reading, Excel for working
- Every school in the district
- Delivered by email within 24h
Per state
State Pack
$249
Every public school in one state. Excel + CSV, all 122 fields, filter-ready with a plain-English legend sheet.
- All schools, one state
- Excel + CSV formats
- Sources & vintages per column
Per metro
Metro Pack
$499
Every district in one metro area — a District Report for each, plus a cross-district comparison workbook.
- All districts in the metro
- Cross-district comparison sheet
- PDF + Excel per district
National
National Sheet
$2,990/yr
All 102,176 schools, all 122 fields, Excel + CSV — with every data refresh for a year.
- The full national dataset
- Release refreshes for 12 months
- Machine-readable field manifest
Enterprise
Custom
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Product integrations, bulk licensing, custom cuts, historical vintages, or fields we haven’t published yet.
- Scoped in writing before invoice
- Commercial licensing terms
- Direct line to the maintainer
Order requests open an email for the selected product. We confirm the request and send a secure payment link. Single payment · 7-day refund · invoice on request.
Fig. 05 · For apps & agents
Connect your product or AI agent.
The same cited records ship through a key-gated API and an MCP server for licensed partners — metered in depth units, with the field registry attached.
MCP server for AI agents
Four MCP tools — lookup, trajectory, subgroups, and movers — so an agent answers “is this school improving?” with cited values instead of guesses.
Metered REST API
Four endpoints priced in depth units (1 / 4 / 8 / 12). JSON in, cited facts out — every value carries its source and vintage.
Plans from $49/mo
Starter 12,000 units · Growth 50,000 units · enterprise annual custom. The trial includes 500 free units, and caching is allowed with attribution.
Scope agreed in writing
Key-gated with no anonymous endpoint. No raw-bulk resale, and no training-data use without a written enterprise license.
Fig. 04 · Methodology
No composite score. No black box.
The full sources, vintages, and estimation rules are published at /methodology — cite it freely.
102,176
school profiles
6
source families, vintages disclosed
122
fields, each sourced
v2026.07
versioned release
Never overwrite, always attribute
A state-reported exact value is never replaced by a federal estimate. When both exist, the exact value wins and carries the year it was reported.
Estimates are flagged, not hidden
Where a suppressed federal band (“90–94%”) is resolved to a midpoint, the field is marked is_estimated — in every file we ship.
Zeros are data
A school reporting zero expulsions is different from a school that didn’t report. Reported zeros and missing values are kept distinct.
Facts, not scores
We don’t blend metrics into a proprietary “school score.” You get government-reported facts and derive your own view.
§ Questions
Asked before you did.
Is this a school ranking?
No — deliberately. K12 Atlas publishes government-reported facts with their sources and years attached. We do not compute a composite “quality score,” and state accountability ratings are shown in each state’s own scheme (A–F, stars, index points) because they are not comparable across states. Facts, not scores.
Where does the data come from?
NCES Common Core of Data, the Civil Rights Data Collection, EDFacts, Census F-33 school finance, NCES EDGE geography, and 40+ state Department of Education files. Every field carries its source and vintage — see the methodology.
How current is it?
The current release is v2026.07. Government education data is published on a lag, so a school profile mixes vintages — mostly SY 2023-24 for enrollment and graduation, SY 2021-22 for civil-rights fields. Rather than pretend otherwise, every field group is year-stamped so you always know what you’re reading.
What format do the files come in?
District Reports ship as a PDF (for reading) plus an Excel workbook (for working). State Packs and the National Sheet ship as Excel + CSV. Every file includes a plain-English legend and a sources & vintages appendix.
How does buying work right now?
Order requests open a product-specific email. We confirm the request and send a secure payment link; files are delivered after payment, typically within 24 hours. 7-day refund, no questions, by reply.
Can I use this in my product, or get an API?
The listed editions license internal use. Product embedding, redistribution, and API access are scoped separately — see paid API access, or email us with what you’re building. Note: licensees integrating school data into housing surfaces are required to comply with the Fair Housing Act.
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