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The National Center for Education Statistics(NCES)
The
National Center for Education
Statistics (NCES), located within the U.S. Department of
Education and the Institute of Education Sciences, is the primary
federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to
education. From this site, you can locate information
about a particular
school or
school district, create
custom tables
using data from NCES Common Core Data (CCD), view
reports and create
customized tables from achievement data captured via the National
Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), and
more.
The
School District Demographics System (SDDS)
site allows users to access and use school district demographic
information.
The site's purpose is:
- To provide access to information about school
district demographic resources developed under the sponsorship of the National
Center for Education Statistics (NCES) of the U.S. Department of Education.
- To enable users to directly access school district geographic and demographic data.
- To provide information about school district demographic concepts, uses, and applications
to facilitate effective use of these information resources.
Applications available at this site allow you to view,
compare,
analyze,
and map school district demographic data, including Census Bureau
(which may be viewed and downloaded at the level of individual school districts).
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