Research Guides: Special Education: Education Stats & Data

National Center of Education Statistics

National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
The primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education. NOTE: Below are few of the more popular aspects, but there is so much more on the site.
Condition of Education
This site has the key indicators of the condition of education in the United States. These indicators summarize important developments and trends using the latest statistics and are updated as data become available.
Digest of Education Statistics
It provides a compilation of statistical information covering the broad field of American education from prekindergarten through graduate school. T
Education Finance Statistics Center (EDFIN)
Use this site to get finance information on public elementary/secondary education.
Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS)
the primary source for data on colleges, universities, and technical and vocational postsecondary institutions in the United States
School District Demographics System
SDDS enables access to school district demographic and related geographic data that is not available in any other form.
Schools and Staffing Survey
a system of related questionnaires that provide descriptive data on the context of elementary and secondary education and policymakers a variety of statistics on the condition of education in the United States.

What Works Clearinghouse (IES)
The WWC identifies studies that provide credible and reliable evidence of the effectiveness of a given practice, program, or policy

ICPSR (datasets) This link opens in a new window
The Inter-University Consortium for Political & Social Research (ICPSR) maintains a dataset archive of research in the social and behavioral sciences. It hosts 21 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.
Each study's dataset provides documentation (e.g. codebook), and a bibliography of published articles that used the data. Data offered in many formats.
Must create an ICPSR account to download data. Coverage: 1700s-present.

Civil Rights Data (US Dept of Education)
Provides education access and equity data collected from US public schools.
US Dept of Ed: Data & Research
Overview of available data and tools on various education-related topics

State Spending on Kids
Urban Institute dataset summarizing state-by-state spending on education, income security, health, and other areas
ChildStats.gov
A collection of 22 Federal government agencies involved in research and activities related to children and families.
Kids Count
Provides reliable data, policy recommendations and tools needed to advance sound policies that benefit children and families.
New Mexico Voices
Related to Kids Count, but on the local level.

GapMinder
It uses its videos and data visualization tools to help people better understand statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels.
OECD Education Statistics
The site includes education stats and data by country, OECD's annual Education at a Glance and so much more.
EdStats (World Bank)
It illustrates individual country's key education indicators, attainment, equity, learning outcomes, policy data
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
The Institute produces the data and methodologies to monitor trends at national and international levels, covering education, literacy, among other topics.
International Comparisons in Education
From NCES, it supports a variety of activities to provide statistical data for cross-national comparisons of education. These activities focus on 2 major areas: indicators and assessments.