About K12Guides
Directory and research database covering elementary and secondary education across the United States.
Our Mission & Purpose
K12Guides compiles public education records and demographic statistics into a clean, searchable directory. Our goal is to provide parents, educators, and researchers with direct access to school administrative details, local neighborhood context, school system finances, and geographic attendance boundaries.
We believe educational data should be organized clearly, accessible to everyone, and easy to understand without navigating complex government databases.
About the Dataset & Sources
The information on K12Guides is assembled from statistical and educational surveys published by federal agencies:
Public School Directory
National Center for Education Statistics. Covers operating public elementary, middle, and high schools across all states and territories, including grades offered, contact information, school types, and parent school districts.
Private School Universe Survey
National Center for Education Statistics. Details private academies, religious affiliations, student enrollments, teacher counts, student-teacher ratios, and grade spans.
Geographic Coordinates & District Boundaries
Education Demographic and Geographic Estimates Program. Provides spatial latitude and longitude coordinates, locale classifications (large city, suburb, town, rural), and official school district boundary polygons.
School System Financial Reports
U.S. Census Bureau Annual Survey of School System Finances. Includes district revenues from federal, state, and local sources, expenditures on classroom instruction and support services, and outstanding debt balances.
Community Demographics, Income & Housing
U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey. Provides neighborhood economic profiles, including median household income, 16-bracket income distribution, poverty rates, median home values, and gross rent by school district and ZIP code area.
Child Poverty Estimates
U.S. Census Bureau Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates. Tracks school-age children in poverty across individual school districts.
Feedback & Corrections
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