School, district, and college-level data.

School- and district-level test score data comparable across tests.

Various federal education data

Census and survey data from around the world.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wZhPLMCHKJvwOkP4juclhjFgqIY8fQFMemwKL2c64vk/edit#gid=0

CA education data

Data files pertaining to student and school demographics that can be downloaded to your computer.

Data files pertaining to staff demographics that can be downloaded to your computer.

"a collection of sophisticated school finance measures for assessing the adequacy and fairness of each state’s revenue, spending, and resource allocation, and for comparing these outcomes between states and over time"

Weekly data project aimed at online R learning community

A variety of data from the US Census Bureau

Clearinghouse for public data from the federal government

Since its inception in 1991, the NHES has fielded topical survey modules about early childhood care and education, children's readiness for school, parents' perceptions of school safety and discipline, before- and after-school activities of school-age children, participation in adult and career education, parents' involvement in their children's education, school choice, homeschooling, and civic involvement. Since 2007, the NHES has focused on four main topics: young children's care and education before school , participation in adult training and education, parents' involvement in their children's education–including school choice–and homeschooling.

School- and district level data in IL

District-level discipline data

School- and district-level nationwide data

This page includes interactive visualizations of data from COVID-19 K-12 studies.

"a decades-long survey of state agency leaders...a 50-state chronological portrait of state administrative leaders, what they think, and what their agencies do"

School-level finance data.

"This database includes data on education learning outputs and outcome and resources, access to education and the learning environment."

Data from the DC Enrollment Study

Combines public higher education data, especially focused on computer science and engineering attainment.

Free, de-identified survey data of educators from RAND.

Wide-ranging academic, discipline, staffing, and financial data on US public schools.

Data on institutions of higher education in the United States, including enrollment, financial aid, degree completion, etc.

Tool to explore federal education data sets, including older data.

Includes information on institutional characteristics, enrollment, student aid, costs, and student outcomes, as well as supporting data on student completion, debt and repayment, earnings, and more.

EdBuild’s master dataset of school district finance, student demographics, and community economic indicators for every school district in the United States.

The Correlates of State Policy Project includes more than 900 variables, with observations across the 50 U.S. states and across time (1900–2016, approximately). These variables represent policy outputs or political, social, or economic factors that may influence policy differences.

Primarily macroeconomic data.

Combines data on California schools, including tools for combining data elements.

"Most of our data are not good enough for detailed numeric analysis." Gapminder combines data from multiple sources into unique coherent time-series that can’t be found elsewhere.

STEM education-related data with "both restricted and public-use data files that can be used for quantitative and qualitative analysis. Search through the archives by topic, variable, or title."

"The data mart provides information about students, courses, student services, outcomes and faculty and staff."

"Open Data is free public data published by New York City agencies and other partners."

"WHO's gateway to health-related statistics for more than 1000 indicators for its 194 Member States. Data are organized to monitor progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including health status indicators to monitor progress towards for the overall health goal, indicators to track equity in health indicators, and the indicators for the specific health and health-related targets of the SDGs."

"Read free research data and market intelligence on the UK film industry and other screen sectors."

"We’re sharing the data and code behind some of our articles and graphics."

"Monitoring the situation of children and women"

Various; "Harvard Dataverse is a repository for research data."

Various; "high quality data and datasets organized by topic"; may require more data processing experience.

Various; "Data in Brief is a multidisciplinary, open access, peer-reviewed journal, which publishes short, digestible articles that describe and provide access to research data."

"This site enables users to apply for access to quantitative data and classroom videos created by the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Use of the MET Longitudinal Database is offered to approved researchers via a remote access system."

"The Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS) program provides important information about children's knowledge, skills, and development from birth through elementary school."

Thorough and well organized list of data sources.

"The PISA database contains the full set of responses from individual students, school principals and parents."

Various. (Portuguese)

Datasets related to early childhood.

From the Edunomics Lab: "a list of datasets commonly used in education research and practice focused primarily on finance-related data"

Various teacher-related databases either available to download or available upon request.

The objective of the U.S. COVID-19 County Policy (UCCP) Database is to systematically gather, characterize, and assess variation in U.S. county-level COVID-19-related policies. (paper link: https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-022-14132-6 )

Published paper re: spatial and cognitive ability using data from Russian university students: https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjep.12524

https://robertkelchen.com/2023/01/19/sharing-a-dataset-of-program-level-debt-and-earnings-outcomes/

Assembled and shared by Robert Kelchen; "The resulting dataset covers 45,971 programs at 5,033 institutions with data on both student debt and earnings for those same cohorts."

"an open access repository currently comprising dozens of datasets covering India’s over 500,000 villages and 8000 towns over a span of 25 years, all linked together with a set of common geographic identifiers"

Replication Data for: Do Male and Female Legislators Have Different Twitter Communication Styles?

"a dataset with nearly 4 million tweets by all American state legislators, coded for topic and ideology through supervised learning"

"The FBI's Crime Data Explorer (CDE) aims to provide transparency, create easier access, and expand awareness of criminal, and noncriminal, law enforcement data sharing; improve accountability for law enforcement; and provide a foundation to help shape public policy with the result of a safer nation. Use the CDE to discover available data through visualizations, download data in .csv format, and other large data files."

Data on the provision of special education services (e.g., SPED personnel).

"The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) is a set of surveys that track behaviors that can lead to poor health in students grades 9 through 12."

https://bjs.ojp.gov/data-collection/law-enforcement-management-and-administrative-statistics-lemas

From the Bureau of Justice Statisics: "Conducted periodically since 1987, the LEMAS core collects data from over 3,000 general purpose, county, and local law enforcement agencies, including all those that employ 100 or more full-time sworn officers and a nationally representative sample of smaller agencies. Data are obtained on agency responsibilities, operating expenditures, job functions of sworn and civilian employees, officer salaries and special pay, demographic characteristics of officers, weapons and armor policies, education and training requirements, computers and information systems, vehicles, special units, and community policing activities."

"Public data include a county-by-month panel of travel distances to the nearest U.S. abortion provider from January 2009 through December 2022. Researchers can apply for restricted data identifying abortion facilities."

Explorer and table generator for US Census data.

"The American Stories dataset is a collection of full article texts extracted from historical U.S. newspaper images. It includes nearly 20 million scans from the public domain Chronicling America collection maintained by the Library of Congress. The dataset is designed to address the challenges posed by complex layouts and low OCR quality in existing newspaper datasets." See: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.12477

"The SEER research data include SEER incidence and population data associated by age, sex, race, year of diagnosis, and geographic areas (including SEER registry and county). SEER releases new research data every Spring based on the previous November’s submission of data. Use SEER data to address multiple topics; for example, you can: Examine stage at diagnosis by race/ethnicity Calculate survival by stage at diagnosis, age at diagnosis, and tumor grade or size. Determine trends and incidence rates for various cancer sites over time."

https://www.fldoe.org/accountability/data-sys/edu-info-accountability-services/pk-12-public-school-data-pubs-reports/

Public data files from the Florida Department of Education

"This is an R Shiny app to search for economic articles that have provided data and code for replication purposes. The main feature is a keyword search in the article's titles and abstracts. It returns a list with links to the articles on their journal websites and some estimates of the sizes of data files and relevant code files. By default only articles are included that have a data or code supplement."

"Data and programs from Mostly Harmless Econometrics"

https://www.minneapolisfed.org/institute/income-distributions-and-dynamics-in-america/data-center

The Income Distributions and Dynamics in America project seeks to foster new research and analysis on income disparities by providing statistics on income percentiles, shares, growth rates, persistence, and more for many U.S. demographic groups at national and state levels.

The National Longitudinal School Database (NLSD) was created by the National Center for Research on Education Access and Choice (REACH) to allow researchers to examine various aspects of traditional public schools, charter schools, magnet schools, and private schools.

"Pew Research Center makes its data available to the public for secondary analysis after a period of time."

US elections data

"The goal of OpenElections is to create the first free, comprehensive, standardized, linked set of election results data for the United States."

"DataLumos is an ICPSR archive for valuable government data resources. ICPSR has a long commitment to safekeeping and disseminating US government and other social science data. DataLumos accepts deposits of public data resources from the community and recommendations of public data resources that ICPSR itself might add to DataLumos."