Statistical & Census Data

Provides a compilation of statistical information covering American education from prekindergarten through graduate school, including the number of schools and colleges, teachers, enrollments, and graduates, in addition to educational attainment, finances, federal funds for education, libraries, and international education. Supplemental information on population trends, attitudes on education, education characteristics of the labor force, government finances, and economic trends.

From the US Department of Education. Research information, statistics, and student assessment.

Dataset Search enables users to find datasets stored across thousands of repositories on the Web. Dataset Search is currently in Beta, with the greatest coverage in environmental and social sciences, as well as government data.

From the U.S. Department of Education. Portal page. See other links under Education Data to go directly to highlighted resources from NCES.

Research on a variety of topics: No Child Left Behind, Professional Pay, Achievement Gaps, Drop-out Prevention, Minority Community Outreach, Education funding and more.

Provides projections for key education statistics, including enrollment, graduates, teachers, and expenditures in elementary and secondary schools. Included are national data on enrollment and graduates for the past 15 years and projections to the year 2018, as well as state-level data on enrollment in public elementary and secondary schools and public high school graduates to the year 2018.

Includes a range of detailed data on educational conditions, contexts, and outcomes in schools and school districts across the United States. It includes data at a range of institutional and geographic levels of aggregation, and measures of academic achievement, achievement gaps, school and neighborhood racial and socioeconomic composition, school and neighborhood racial and socioeconomic segregation patterns.

The most comprehensive place for international statistics on education, including preschool and college education, with information dating back to 1970.

Data on international students studying in the U.S. and data on U.S. students studying internationally.