This layer displays the characteristics and locations of higher education facilities including vocational and technical schools, colleges, and universities.
Opportunity Index Score
The Opportunity Index is a composite measure that draws upon important economic, educational, health, and community-related indicators of opportunity. The Index was launched in 2011 and has since been updated regularly. It provides insight into the multidimensional nature of opportunity in the United States. The indicators are broken down geographically to measure opportunity for individual states and counties, as well as aid policymakers and other stakeholders as they work to increase opportunity in our nation
Chronic Absenteeism by School District, 2015-16
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.
USGS Structures – Education Facilities
This layer shows education facilities found in the USGS Structures Dataset
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
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.
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.
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.