Research Guides: Instructional Design and Technology: Data

Education Data

Texas Education Agency Reports and Data
Data on educators, school districts, school performance, and students
Texas Academic Performance Reports
The Texas Academic Performance Reports (TAPR) pull together a wide range of information on the performance of students in each school and district in Texas every year.
STAAR (State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness) Results
Aggregate data, raw score frequency distributions, and statewide summary reports
Texas schools shapefiles
Shapefiles for Texas schools, school districts, and education service centers, prepared for use in GIS
AEIS (Academic Excellence Indicator System)
AEIS performance reports for every Texas public school and district for 1990-91 through 2011-12
Texas Higher Education Data
The Texas Higher Education Data Homepage contains data on costs, declared majors, degrees awarded, distance education, graduation rates, enrollments and more

Almanac of Higher Education
Faculty salaries and demographics, college enrollment, degrees conferred, diversity, finances, technology usage and more, as compiled by The Chronicle of Higher Education

Statistical Abstract of the U.S.
Online edition of annual statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States

NCES Education Data Online Codebook
Contains contains several educational surveys conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics and options for selecting a population, relevant variables, and export into several statistical software packages
NCES Elementary/Secondary Information System
An NCES web application that allows users to quickly view public and private school data and create custom tables and charts using data from the Common Core of Data (CCD) and Private School Survey (PSS)
Census Bureau Education Data
Data on educational attainment, school enrollment, school costs, and more collected in the Decennial Census and American Community Survey
Education data from ICPSR
Over 100 datasets collected by governments and academic researchers, curated by ICPSR. Search on the variable level for many studies.
NCES Education Data Online Codebook
Contains contains several educational surveys conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics and options for selecting a population, relevant variables, and export into several statistical software packages

UIS (UNESCO Institute for Statistics) Education Data
Longitudinal data (1999-for the nations of the world collected by the United Nations on school participation, progression, completion, and more
World Bank Ed Stats
Comprehensive international data on key education indicators, attainment, equity, learning outcomes, policy. See also the EdStats Data Visualizer