Data catalog

NCES K-12 public schools

National Center for Education Statistics (via Urban Institute Education Data API)

Publisher site
education
entity

In a RepVector build, this dataset profiles the schools, training pipelines and workforce supply of a territory.

Sample of the actual data
100 rows captured for New Jersey on 2026-08-23. Showing the first 8.
SchoolDistrictCityEnrollmentTeachers (FTE)Free/reduced lunch students
Chatham High SchoolSchool District of the ChathamsCHATHAM1,31510221
Chatham Middle SchoolSchool District of the ChathamsCHATHAM9849113
Lafayette Avenue SchoolSchool District of the ChathamsCHATHAM5925811
Milton Avenue SchoolSchool District of the ChathamsCHATHAM284223
Washington Avenue SchoolSchool District of the ChathamsCHATHAM314286
Southern Boulevard SchoolSchool District of the ChathamsCHATHAM414393
Developmental Learning Center WarrenMorris-Union Jointure Commisson School DistrictWARREN1503112
Developmental Learning Center New ProvidenceMorris-Union Jointure Commisson School DistrictNEW PROVIDENCE681515

What this dataset is

Every public K-12 school, with district, grade span, enrollment, teacher counts and free/reduced-lunch share, addressed to city and county. Maps the full public school system in an area — not just district headquarters but every individual school building. It is published by National Center for Education Statistics (via Urban Institute Education Data API) and can be queried at county and state level, refreshed annually. Each row is an individual entity — an organisation, site or practitioner — so results can be filtered, routed and turned directly into a call list.

Why it is useful

  • Indicates where trained workforce is produced, which predicts staffing capacity.
  • Identifies institutional buyers that sit outside commercial registries.
  • Adds a demographic dimension that population counts alone miss.

Questions it helps answer

  • Where does this territory's workforce pipeline come from?
  • Which institutions in this market are buyers in their own right?

How different verticals use it

RepVector is vertical-agnostic: this dataset is selected by what your question asks for, not by industry. These are common ways teams put it to work.

Education & workforce

Sizes enrolment, outcomes and institution mix inside a territory.

Technology & software

Targets districts and campuses by enrolment and programme type.

Healthcare & life sciences

Locates training pipelines that feed local clinical staffing.

Financial services

Maps student and graduate populations behind lending demand.

How RepVector uses it

  1. You describe a market in plain language. The geography resolver turns the place you named into the exact identifiers this dataset needs — city to county to state, plus DMA where relevant — so a query at county runs without you knowing any codes.
  2. The planner selects NCES K-12 public schools only when your question matches what it actually reports. It is never included to pad a result.
  3. Returned rows are normalised into the shared metric layer, so figures from National Center for Education Statistics (via Urban Institute Education Data API) line up with every other source in the same dashboard instead of sitting in an isolated table.
  4. Quality checks score coverage and recency. If National Center for Education Statistics (via Urban Institute Education Data API) suppresses or omits a value for your geography, the gap is reported as a gap — nothing is estimated or filled in.
  5. The result renders as charts, KPIs and, where the rows are entities, prioritised targets you can export to PDF, Excel, CSV or JSON.

What it does not tell you

  • Reported on an academic cycle, so it lags in-year staffing changes.
At a glance
How this dataset can be queried and how current it stays.
Publisher
National Center for Education Statistics (via Urban Institute Education Data API)
Geographic grain
county
state
Refresh cadence
Annually
Row represents
entity
Topics
education
schools
k-12
students
enrollment
districts
teachers
public schools
children
families
grade levels
free lunch
Available fields
The columns this dataset returns in a RepVector build.
FieldKeyType
Schoolnamestring
Districtdistrictstring
Citycitystring
Enrollmentenrollmentnumber
Teachers (FTE)teachersFtenumber
Free/reduced lunch studentsfreeOrReducedLunchnumber
Lowest gradelowestGradenumber
Highest gradehighestGradenumber
ZIPzipgeo

How it fits with the rest of the catalog

Workforce supply reads best against the population it serves and the sites that employ it. RepVector queries every selected dataset against the same resolved geography and time window, then normalises the results into one metric layer so they can be charted side by side. These datasets are the most common companions to NCES K-12 public schools:

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Common questions

What does NCES K-12 public schools contain?

Every public K-12 school, with district, grade span, enrollment, teacher counts and free/reduced-lunch share, addressed to city and county. Maps the full public school system in an area — not just district headquarters but every individual school building. It is published by National Center for Education Statistics (via Urban Institute Education Data API) at county and state grain.

How often is it refreshed?

National Center for Education Statistics (via Urban Institute Education Data API) publishes on a annually cycle. RepVector re-reads the source on that cadence and keeps every prior capture, so you can see what changed.

Do I need an account to use it?

No. Browsing the catalog and the free lookup tools needs no account. Running a full market build across every county in a territory is the paid product.

Put NCES K-12 public schools to work in your market
Describe the market and the customer you want in plain language. RepVector resolves the geography, selects the datasets that actually answer it — including this one when it fits — and builds the dashboard, targets and exports.

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