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Stable download surfaces for PlainSchools processed NCES state aggregates. Each extract carries source, vintage, and citation contracts so journalists and analysts can reuse the files without inventing school-quality claims.
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U.S. public schools by state
51 states with school count, enrollment, average student-teacher ratio, and free/reduced-lunch share from NCES Common Core of Data. Aggregate rollup only, not a bulk export of individual school records.
51 rows · NCES CCD · portal July 2026
Upstream NCES Common Core of Data, CRDC, and F-33 finance disclosures are public government data. PlainSchools joins, derived presentation, and documentation are CC BY-SA 4.0. These files describe resource and enrollment aggregates, not academic quality scores or school recommendations. Narrative findings live at /statistics; methodology at /methodology.