California school data
10,407 public schools and 2,070 districts appear in K12 Atlas for California. This hub lists coverage signals and links to source-backed pages.
Fields available in this state.
Enrollment movement
5,485 shrinking schools and 1,842 growing schools, using 5-year CCD trend fields where available.
Program and staffing fields
1,362 schools report AP coursework and 3,450 report zero nurse FTE in CRDC fields.
Title I positives
1,102 school profiles carry positive Title I status. Missing values are not rewritten as negatives.
Source model
Directory and enrollment fields come from NCES CCD; staffing, course, and discipline fields come from CRDC; finance comes from Census F-33.
How to verify California school records
DataQuest provides state, district, and school reports. Match the selected year and reporting level before comparing enrollment or graduation results with a release aggregate. Start with California DataQuest.
The counts above describe K12 Atlas release v2026.07 coverage. Staffing, Title I, finance, and graduation fields use their own reporting years and have different usable populations. A missing field is not a negative result. The California school directory supports identity and grade-span lookup; its public and private records are a different universe from these public-school dataset totals.
For comparisons, use the enrollment-change guide and district spending guide. Keep each source year and denominator alongside the release version in your citation.
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Use the reporting year shown beside each metric when comparing records. NCES CCD data files cover public-school directory and enrollment records; Civil Rights Data Collection covers staffing, programs and discipline; Census school finance files report district finance. Our methodology explains the joins, coverage and missing values.
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