Background Information

The U.S. Department of Education [ED] conducts the Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC), formerly the Elementary and Secondary School Survey (E&S Survey), to collect data on key education and civil rights issues in our nation's public schools. The CRDC collects a variety of information including, student enrollment and educational programs and services, disaggregated by race/ethnicity, sex, limited English proficiency and disability. The CRDC is a longstanding and important aspect of the ED Office for Civil Right's overall strategy for administering and enforcing the civil rights statutes for which it is responsible. Information collected by the CRDC is also used by other ED offices as well as policymakers and researchers outside of ED.

About the CRDC MS WORD (34K)

CRDC Data Notes MS WORD (41K)

Access CRDC Data

To access CRDC data from the 2000, 2004, 2006, and 2009-10 surveys:

Civil Rights Data Collection

CRDC Publications and Analyses

The Transformed CRDC-March 2012 Data Summary PDF (805K)

Gender Equity in Education-June 2012 PDF (436K)

Data Notes: Gender Equity in Education-June 2012 PDF (208K)

2009-10 CRDC

The 2009-10 CRDC is a sample of approximately 7,000 school districts and over 72,000 schools. All data is from the 2009-10 school year. Part 1 collected point in time (snap shot) data. Part 2 collected cumulative or end of year data. Information and the data are available below:

• 2009-10 CRDC Table Layouts with Definitions MS WORD (687K)
• 2009-10 CRDC Questions and Answers
• 2009-10 CRDC Data http://ocrdata.ed.gov

2011-12 CRDC

The upcoming 2011-12 CRDC will contain data for the 2011-12 school year from all schools and school districts in the country. The last time the CRDC was conducted as a universal collection was in 2000. The data collection begins in the Fall of 2012 and will be available here in the Fall of 2013.

• 2011-12 CRDC Table Layouts with Definitions MS WORD (695K)
• 2011-12 CRDC Questions and Answers

For additional information about the CRDC, please e-mail us at ocrdata@ed.gov