Open Data
Contains data and statistics collected from schools in the state.
- Childstats.gov
Data included in FedStats but " this website concentrates on "...statistics and reports on children and families."
- Education Watch Online
Ed Watch Interactive is a user-friendly source of data on educational performance and equity by race and class, kindergarten through college.
- KidsCount Data Center
Explore hundreds of measures of well-being for kids across the nation, or in your state, city, or community.
- NAEP State Profiles
State Profiles presents key data about each state's performance in the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in mathematics, reading, writing, and science for grades 4 and 8.
- Nation's Report Card
The Nation's Report Card presents the results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which measures student achievement in the U.S. in various subjects over time.
- National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
Collects, analyzes and makes available data related to education in the U.S. and other nations.
- New York State Education Department
Contains data and statistics collected from New York schools and learning support resources.
- New York State Report Cards
The New York State Report Cards provide enrollment, demographic, attendance, suspension, dropout, teacher, assessment, accountability, graduation rate, post-graduate plan, career and technical education, and fiscal data for public and charter schools, districts, and the State.
- NYC Department of Education
Research and Data on NYC Schools.
Contains reports about SJSU student enrollment, graduation rates, faculty recruitment
- TIMMS & PIRLS student achievement data
TIMSS and PIRLS are international assessments that monitor trends in student achievement in mathematics, science, and reading.
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Data Centre
Contains over 1,000 types of indicators and raw data on education, literacy, science and technology, culture and communication for more than 200 countries and territories
Open Web - Advanced Search
The open web provides a plethora of resources for finding data. Try using Google Advanced searching or Google Dataset Search.
Tips for Advanced Google searching include:
- Include search terms like data or table
- Google ignores the word AND as a search operator. But, typing OR in all caps will find similar or related terms (e.g. women OR females OR girls).
- Search for a particular document type (e.g. childhood obesity filetype:xls)
- Search for data on a particular site or domain (e.g. childhood obesity site:.gov)
- Exclude words by using the "-" sign in front of the word you wish to exclude