Name (click for metadata and to rate record) Description Agency Subagency Category
National Assessment of Educational Progress, NAEP The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also known as the Nation's Report Card, is the only nationally representative and continuing assessment of what America's students know and can do in various subject areas. NAEP includes data from Main NAEP, Long-term Trend NAEP, and the High School Transcript Data. ED NCES Education
National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS) A survey of student financing of postsecondary education in the United States. Undergraduate and graduate students enrolled at all types of postsecondary institutions in the U.S. in 2007-08 are represented. These include public, private not-for-profit, and private for-profit sector institutions at every level: less-than-2-year, 2-year, 4-year, and graduate-only. ED NCES Education
National Household Education Survey This household based survey provides descriptive data on the educational activities of the U.S. population and offers a variety of statistics on the condition of education in the United States. The NHES surveys cover learning at all ages, from early childhood to school age through adulthood. The NHES has been conducted since 1991 and has modules covering early childhood care, parent and family involvement in education, after school program participation, school safety, library usage, adult education, school readiness and civic involvement. ED NCES Education
List of Local Education Agencies (School Districts) The Common Core of Data survey provides a listing of all schools districts providing free public elementary and secondary education, along with basic descriptive statistical information on each school district listed. Formally known as the Common Core of Data Local Education Agency (School District) Universe Survey Data. ED NCES Education
Federal Student Loan Program Data Provides recipient and disbursement information each quarter for the Direct Loan and Federal Family Education Loan Programs by postsecondary school. ED FSA Education
Grant Program Data for Federal Student Aid Provides recipient and disbursement information each quarter for the Federal Pell, Academic Competitiveness, National SMART and Teach Grant Programs by postsecondary school. ED FSA Education
Campus-Based Program Data for Federal Student Aid Provides annual recipient, disbursement and federal award information for the Campus-Based Programs (Perkins Loan Program, Federal Supplemental Education Opportunity Grant and Federal Work-Study Program) by postsecondary school. ED FSA Education
Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-99 (ECLS) The Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS), Kindergarten Class of 1998-99 followed a nationally representative sample of children who were kindergartners in 1998-99 from kindergarten through eighth grade. The base-year sample included more than 21,000 children attending more than 1,200 public and private schools. Data were collected from children, their families, their teachers, and their schools at multiple points in time (i.e., fall and spring kindergarten, fall and spring first grade, spring third grade, spring fifth grade, spring eighth grade). The ECLS-K program provides national data on children's transition to school and their experiences and growth through the eighth grade. The ECLS program also provides data to analyze the relationships among a wide range of family, school, community, and child characteristics with children's development, learning, and performance in school. ED NCES Education
State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary and Secondary Education This Common Core of Data survey provides basic state-level information about students and staff in public elementary and secondary education. ED NCES Education
State Dropout and Completion Data This Common Core of Data dataset reports the number of dropouts from each of grades 9 - 12 and the relevant event dropout rates and to report the numbers of high school diploma recipients, other high school completers, and the relevant Averaged Freshman Graduation Rate (AFGR). ED NCES Education