Education finance data include revenues, expenditures, debt, and assets (cash and security holdings) of elementary and secondary public school systems. Statistics cover school systems in all states, and include the District of Columbia.

census.gov-school_finance-1.1.3. Modified 2022-07-17T13:01:02

Resources

• school_finance. Combined school finance

Documentation

Documentation Links

• Annual Survey of School System Finances Tables Program homepage
• Documentation, 2020 Dataset documentation, including data dictionary
• Documentation Page

Contacts

• Wrangler

Eric Busboom, Civic Knowledge

Data Dictionary

school_finance

Data files pertaining to staff demographics, credentials and teaching load.

cde.ca.gov-staff-1.1.2. Modified 2022-06-27T23:03:03

Resources

• staff_cred. Staff credentials
• staff_demo. Staff Demographics
• staff_fte. Staff FTE teaching load 100=full time.

Documentation

License

The upstream data, from the California Department of Education, does not explicitly reference a license, so we assume it is in the public domain.

License

The source data, from the California Department of Education, does not explicitly reference a license, but since the top-level website for California indicates that data published on the State of California website is generally in the public domain, we assume it is in the public domain. Derived data included in this package is also in the public domain. Metadata in this package ( contained in the metadata.csv file ) is derived from metadata for the source package, and is also in the public domain.

Downloadable data about the College-Going Rate (CGR) for California high school completers disaggregated by race/ethnicity, student group, and academic year.

cde.ca.gov-postsec_enroll-1.2.3. Modified 2022-06-17T17:07:51

Resources

• cgr. College Going Rate

Documentation

College-Going Rate (CGR) for California high school completers 12 months and 16 months after high school completion reported by race/ethnicity, student group, and academic year.

License

The source data, from the California Department of Education, does not explicitly reference a license, but since the top-level website for California indicates that data published on the State of California website is generally in the public domain, we assume it is in the public domain. Derived data included in this package is also in the public domain. Metadata in this package ( contained in the metadata.csv file ) is derived from metadata for the source package, and is also in the public domain.

Datasets for the California school dashboard at https://www.caschooldashboard.org

cde.ca.gov-accountability_dashboard-2017-1.2.1. Modified 2021-03-11T00:52:26

Resources

• ela38. English Language Arts, Grades 3-8
• ela11. English Language Arts, Grade 11
• math38. Math, Grades 3-8
• math11. Math, Grade 11
• collegecareer. College / Career Indicators
• susprate. Suspension Rate
• elaprog. English Language Arts Progress Indicators
• gradrate.

Documentation

Documentation Links

• California Accountability Model & School Dashboard Program page for the dashboard, datasets and reports.
• California School Dashboard The California School Dashboard website.
• Documentation Page

Contacts

• Origin

California Department of Education

These research files contain results from the Physical Fitness Test (PFT) program. Each file contains the same information presented in the Reports section of this site and is provided to allow for more complex analyses and customized reporting of the data. The data files, including file layout, entities, and subgroup files, are comma-delimited text files provided in a zip format.

cde.ca.gov-fitnessgram-1999e-ca-1.3.1. Modified 2021-03-11T00:48:56

Resources

• entities99. 1999 PFT Entities
• entities01. 2001 PFT Entities
• entities02. 2002 PFT Entities
• entities03. 2003 PFT Entities
• entities04. 2004 PFT Entities
• entities05. 2005 PFT Entities
• entities06. 2006 PFT Entities
• entities07. 2007 PFT Entities
• entities08. 2008 PFT Entities
• entities09. 2009 PFT Entities
• entities10. 2010 PFT Entities
• entities11. 2011 PFT Entities
• entities12. 2011-12 Physical Fitness Entities
• entities13. 2012-13 Physical Fitness Entities
• entities14. 2013-14 Physical Fitness Entities
• entities15. 2014-15 Physical Fitness Entities
• entities16. 2015-16 Physical Fitness Entities
• physfit99. 1999 PFT Fitness Results
• physfit01. 2001 PFT Fitness Results
• physfit02. 2002 PFT Fitness Results
• physfit03. 2003 PFT Fitness Results
• physfit04. 2004 PFT Fitness Results
• physfit05. 2005 PFT Fitness Results
• physfit06. 2006 PFT Fitness Results
• physfit07. 2007 PFT Fitness Results
• physfit08. 2008 PFT Fitness Results
• physfit09. 2009 PFT Fitness Results
• physfit10. 2010 PFT Fitness Results
• physfit11. 2011 PFT Fitness Results
• physfit12. 2011-12 Physical Fitness Research
• physfit13. 2012-13 Physical Fitness Research
• physfit14. 2013-14 Physical Fitness Research
• physfit15. 2014-15 Physical Fitness Research
• physfit16. 2015-16 Physical Fitness Research
• subgroup99. 1999 PFT Subgroup
• subgroup01. 2001 PFT Subgroup
• subgroup02. 2002 PFT Subgroup
• subgroup03. 2003 PFT Subgroup
• subgroup04. 2004 PFT Subgroup
• subgroup05. 2005 PFT Subgroup
• subgroup06. 2006 PFT Subgroup
• subgroup07. 2007 PFT Subgroup
• subgroup08. 2008 PFT Subgroup
• subgroup09. 2009 PFT Subgroup
• subgroup10. 2010 PFT Subgroup
• subgroup11. 2011 PFT Subgroup
• subgroup12. 2011-12 Physical Fitness Subgroups
• subgroup13. 2012-13 Physical Fitness Subgroups
• subgroup14. 2013-14 Physical Fitness Subgroups
• subgroup15. 2014-15 Physical Fitness Subgroups
• subgroup16. 2015-16 Physical Fitness Subgroups

Documentation

Documentation Links

• Physical Fitness Testing (PFT) Home page for the PFT program
• PFT Statewide Research Files Download page with links to research file archives
• Additional Resources Additional resources for the Physical Fitness Test, including links to the Cooper Institute, San Joaquin County Office of Education, and Human Kinetics.
• File Layout 2001 Text form data dictionary, including common code values
• File Layout 2002 Text form data dictionary, including common code values
• File Layout 2003 Text form data dictionary, including common code values
• File Layout 2004 Text form data dictionary, including common code values
• File Layout 2005 Text form data dictionary, including common code values
• File Layout 2006 Text form data dictionary, including common code values
• File Layout 2007 Text form data dictionary, including common code values
• File Layout 2008 Text form data dictionary, including common code values
• File Layout 2009 Text form data dictionary, including common code values
• File Layout 2010 Text form data dictionary, including common code values
• File Layout 2011 Text form data dictionary, including common code values
• File Layout 2012 Text form data dictionary, including common code values
• File Layout 2013 Text form data dictionary, including common code values
• File Layout 2014 Text form data dictionary, including common code values
• File Layout 2015 Text form data dictionary, including common code values
• File Layout 2016 Text form data dictionary, including common code values
• File Layout 1999 Text form data dictionary, including common code values
• Documentation Page

Contacts

• Creator

High School and Physical Fitness Assessment Office, California Department of Education

School-level enrollment by racial/ethnic designation, gender, and grade.

cde.ca.gov-enrollment-1.2.2. Modified 2022-06-17T17:38:10

Resources

• enrollment. School enrollment, 2007 to 2021
• race_eth. Simplified structure for race/ethnicity

Documentation

Enrollment by school and demographic group for the years 2007 to 2018. The upstream dataset has enrollment data files for yearlier years, as early as 1981, but these files have a different structure.

Caveats

The download page includes this note:

Note these data files contain enrollment data for primary enrollments only. 
It does not include short-term enrollments. For data on short-term enrollments, 
please refer to the Primary and Short-term Enrollment by School data files.

Some of the annual files have a Race/Ethincity code of ‘8’, which corresponds to “Multiple or No Response” in he 1998 to 2006 file structure, but is not defined for this set of files.

Select tables of census data for California school districts, 2020

census.gov-district_demo-ca-1.2.2. Modified 2022-06-17T19:07:41

Resources

• ca_sd_demo. California school district demographics

Documentation

This dataset collects the following Census tables for the sdelm ( Elementary district), sdsec ( Secondary district ) and sduni ( Unified ) school districts in California.

• B01003: Total Population
• B01001: Sex by Age
• B09001: Population Under 18 Years by Age
• C17001: Poverty Status by Sex by Age
• C17002: Ratio of Income to Poverty Level
• C15003: Educational Attainment
• B19081: Mean Household Income of Quintiles
• B25077: Median Value (Dollars)
• B02001: Race
• C03001: Hispanic or Latino Origin by Specific Origin

Documentation Links

• Documentation Page

Contacts

• Wrangler

Eric Busboom, Civic Knowledge

Links between CDS codes, NCES codes and school district geoids in the US census

sandiegodata.org-sd_demo_links-ca-4

Resources

• ca_sd_links. Links between NCES, CDS and Geoids for California school districts

Documentation

Links between three identification codes for California districts:

• CD Codes, the County/District codes used in most CDE data files.
• NCES, codes used by the National Center for Educational Statistics
• Census geoids, codes used in the US Census and American Community Survey.

This linkage file can be used to connect data fiels from the California Department of education to US Census demographics.

California public schools, private schools and districts.

cde.ca.gov-schools-2.1.1. Modified 2022-06-17T15:44:42

Resources

• public_schools.
• school_districts.
• private_schools.

Documentation

License

The source data, from the California Department of Education, does not explicitly reference a license, but since the top-level website for California indicates that data published on the State of California website is generally in the public domain, we assume it is in the public domain. Derived data included in this package is also in the public domain. Metadata in this package ( contained in the metadata.csv file ) is derived from metadata for the source package, and is also in the public domain.

The Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) provides federal funding to participating child care and adult day care centers, allowing the centers to serve nutritious meals to enrolled participants

cde.ca.gov-cacfp_sites-1.2.1. Modified 2022-06-15T17:58:35

Resources

• cacfp_sites. CACFP sites, with location geocode and program type dummy variables

Documentation

California Department of Education CACFP sites file, with extra features, include:

• Sites geocoded to Lat/Lon and Census tract
• The program_types field is broken out into dummy variables
• CDS codes are matched from the CDE schools list.

CDS Code Matching

There are 5 different methods for matching sites to schools in the schools file, each with its own code: