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Education

102,268 public schools and 19,714 districts — every one in the country, each resolved to its county. This is the largest category on the site by an order of magnitude.

The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size, staffing and location. It says nothing about achievement, and nothing here should be read as a judgement of whether a school is good.

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Coverage

Public schools

102,268in the directory

School districts

19,714agencies

Reported figures

410,459data points

County resolution

100% matched

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Largest districts by enrollment

Enrollment is size, not quality — but it is the figure everything else has to be read against.

Enrollment — U.S. school districts
  1. 1Los Angeles Unified (CA)427.8K students
  2. 2Miami-Dade (FL)334.1K students
  3. 3City of Chicago SD 299 (IL)321.7K students
  4. 4Clark County School District (NV)314.3K students
  5. 5Broward (FL)254.7K students
  6. 6Puerto Rico Department of Education (PR)250.7K students
  7. 7Hillsborough (FL)224.5K students
  8. 8Orange (FL)207.6K students
  9. 9Houston ISD (TX)189.9K students
  10. 10Palm Beach (FL)188.8K students
  11. 11Gwinnett County (GA)181.8K students
  12. 12Fairfax County Public Schools (VA)179.9K students
  13. 13Hawaii Department of Education (HI)170.2K students
  14. 14Montgomery County Public Schools (MD)160.6K students
  15. 15Wake County Schools (NC)159.8K students
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By state

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Sources

Education datasets
DatasetAgencyRecordsAs ofLicence
Common Core of Data — school and district directoryEvery public school and school district in the United States, with enrollment, staffing and location. Collected by NCES; fetched through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged because NCES publishes them only as zipped archives.National Center for Education Statistics121,988August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)