This layer data from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data (CCD) School District Finance Survey. The survey provides finance data for all local education agencies (LEAs) that provide free public elementary and secondary education in the United States. County-level data was generated by CARES by aggregating school-district level records with valid reported figures for total students and total expenditures.
Pulic Education Revenue
This layer data from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data (CCD) School District Finance Survey. The survey provides finance data for all local education agencies (LEAs) that provide free public elementary and secondary education in the United States. County-level data was generated by CARES by aggregating school-district level records with valid reported figures for total students and total expenditures.
Revenues are gained by each public school district through federal, state, and local funding.
Public Education Expenditures per Student
Layer displays information about public education finances. Data is from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data (CCD) School District Finance Survey for fiscal year 2010. County-level data was generated by CARES by aggregating school-district level records with valid reported figures for total students and total expenditures. For more data layers from this series, search the Map Room for the term education spending.
Still more map updates from the 2016-20 American Community Survey!
Click the map link to view the latest estimates for the percentage of the adults with a bachelor’s degree or higher. Data are from the 2016-20 American Community Survey (ACS). Maps are available for counties, ZIP Codes, census tracts, and other geographic areas. Search the Map Room for the terms 2020 ACS to view additional map layers from the American Community Survey.
School Segregation Index
This layer displays the extent to which students within different race and ethnicity groups are unevenly distributed across schools when compared with the racial and ethnic composition of the local population. The index ranges from 0 to 1 with lower values representing a school composition that approximates race and ethnicity distributions in the student populations within the county, and higher values representing more segregation.
School Funding Adequacy
This layer displays the average gap in dollars between actual and required spending per pupil among public school districts. Required spending is an estimate of dollars needed to achieve U.S. average test scores in each district.
Chilcare Centers
This layer displays the number of childcare centers per 1,000 population under 5 years old.
USGS Structures – Education Facilities
This layer shows education facilities found in the USGS Structures Dataset
School Shootings
This layer displays the location of school shootings across the country. Shootings are categorized by the situation and the size varies by the number of victims.
Chronic Absenteeism by School District, 2017-18
This layer displays the rate of chronic absenteeism (students missing 15 or more school days) during the 2017-18 school year.