The Ed-Data Partnership website provides Californians with comprehensive, accessible education data for schools, districts, counties, and the state as a whole. You will find performance, staffing, and demographic data, as well as financial reports. Clear data explanations accompany each report, and powerful comparison and filtering tools make examining data easy. In addition, you will find extensive documentation, charts and graphs, and articles about education in California.

How to Find Data

The Ed-Data website is organized by level (state, county, district, or school), fiscal year, and type of data. Information is displayed in reports. The site provides multiple ways to approach and view information. Although some information, such as student demographics, can be compared across all four levels, other information is specific only to certain levels. For example, teacher salaries are available only at the district level. (See the chart below.)

To get the data you want, select state, county, district, or school from the main page. You can also use the "Find" function to look up a specific school or district. Use the pull-down menus to find information of interest to you. Many of the tables in the reports include a "Pop Trends" feature, which lets you look at data over time in graph form. 

Ed-Data Provides

• School, district, county, and state profiles, including the Academic Performance Index and Adequate Yearly Progress results, graduate/dropout rates, SAT results, enrollment, student characteristics, and staffing information that provide a comprehensive portrait of schools.
• Teacher salary and benefits data, including district and state averages that outline some of the most important expenditures of school districts. 
• Bond and parcel tax election data for districts.
• Easy-to-use comparisons of schools and school districts based on the criteria you choose.

• Clear and comprehensive district and county office of education financial reports, with charts and comparisons

Reports and Comparisons

Report Type	Availability
	School	District	County	State
Profile General Information Students Staffing	x	x	x	x
Accountability API Growth API Base Adequate Yearly Progress High Schools (graduates, dropouts, UC/CSU eligibility, SAT results)	x	x	(High Schools tab only)	x
Financial Reports Intro All Funds General Fund Activity Instructional Programs Revenue Sources		x		(School district and county office totals and averages only)
Teacher Salaries		x
Bond and Parcel Tax Elections		x
Lists of Agencies/Schools		x	x	x
Demographic/Performance Comparisons	x	x
Financial Comparisons		x

Some Sample Questions

Some examples of the type of questions Ed-Data can answer are:

Does my school get a "green light" on Adequate Yearly Progress?

Ed-Data will produce a report showing whether the school gets a red, yellow, or green light on Adequate Yearly Progress and explain why:

1. From the main page, find the Reports section and click School.
2. Use the County, District, and School drop-down menus to find the school you're interested in.
3. Select Accountability in the Select Report drop-down menu.
4. Click the AYP tab.

How does my school district's funding per student compare with other districts in the state?

There are two ways to get at the answer to this question. Ed-Data will display a detailed report on revenues and expenditures allowing you to compare your district with statewide averages. Ed-Data will also allow you to create a comparison group of districts. 

Through Financial Reports 

1. From the main page, find the Reports section and click District.
2. Use the County and District drop-down menus to find the district you're interested in.
3. Select Financial Reports for District in the Select Report drop-down menu.
4. Click the General Funds tab.
5. View the Revenues and Expenditures tables, which allow you to compare the district with the statewide average.

Through the Compare District Finances tool

1. From the main page, find the Reports section and click District.
2. Use the County and District drop-down menus to find the district you're interested in.
3. Select Compare District Finances in the Select Report drop-down menu.
4. On the Districts Like This tab, determine what characteristics you would like to select to create a comparison group.
5. Through the Compare drop-down menu, you can choose to focus on only districts in the selected county or throughout the state.
6. Through the Focus on Districts drop-down menu, you can choose to examine districts with similar characteristics in specific spending areas, or those with similar enrollment or average daily attendance (ADA).
7. Click the Click to Compare button. This will generate a table that is also available as a spreadsheet.

Which California high school had the highest score on the Academic Performance Index?

Ed-Data will produce a report comparing the school with the highest score with any other school in the state. There are two ways to get this information.

Through the Highest/Lowest tab of Compare Schools

1. From the main page, find the Reports section and click School.
2. Use the County, District, and School drop-down menus to find the school you're interested in.
3. Select Compare Schools in the Select Report drop-down menu.
4. Select the Highest/Lowest tab.
5. Under the Compare section, select parameters for the comparison group.
6. In the Find Schools section, select highest and select the number of top values you would like to return.
7. In the Show Up To section, select how many results you would like.
8. Click the Click to Compare button. This will generate a table that is also available as a spreadsheet.

Through the Schools like this tab of Compare Schools

1. From the main page, find the Reports section and click School.
2. Use the County, District, and School drop-down menus to find the school you're interested in.
3. Select Compare Schools in the Select Report drop-down menu.
4. Under Focus on Schools, select API Base Scores.
5. To the right, select Close To. Enter 1000.
6. Make sure the Include [Comparison School] in Results box is checked.
7. Select any other items you would like in the comparison report.
8. Click the Click to Compare button. This will generate a table that is also available as a spreadsheet.

How much has my county's K–12 enrollment grown over the last several years?

Ed-Data will produce enrollment tables, charts, and a "Pop Trend" link comparing enrollment over a 10-year period:

1. From the main page, find the Reports section and click County.
2. Use the County drop-down menu to find the county you're interested in
3. Select Profile of County in the Select Report drop-down menu.
4. Click the General Information tab.
5. Click Enrollment by Grade.
6. Click Pop-Trends at the bottom of the table. A chart will appear, and you can view enrollment by grade or total enrollment.