Education & School Psychology Subject Guide: Education Statistics

Provides information on a variety of subjects in the field of education statistics, including the number of schools and colleges, teachers, enrollments, and graduates, in addition to educational attainment, finances, federal funds for education, libraries, and international education.

Offers a comprehensive overview of work done across all of National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). Each issue includes short publications and summaries covering all NCES publications and data products released in a given time period as well as notices about training and funding opportunities.

​​​​​Provides national estimates of educational attainment from 1947 to present, with limited detail for states and some metropolitan areas.

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), located within the U.S. Department of Education and the Institute of Education Sciences, is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education.

Provides projections for key education statistics, including enrollment, graduates, teachers, and expenditures in elementary and secondary schools.

The Condition of Education is a congressionally mandated report that provides an annual portrait of education in the United States. The 40+ indicators included in the report cover all aspects of education, from early childhood through postsecondary education and from student achievement to school environment and resources.

The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System or IPEDS, is the core postsecondary education data collection program for the National Center for Education Statistics. IPEDS collects standardized data from all institutions of higher education that receive federal student financial assistance.

Provides education statistics on more than 200 countries, covers all education levels, and addresses key policy issues such as gender parity, teachers and financing.

A comprehensive data and analysis source for key topics in education such as access, completion, learning, expenditures and equity.

Provides data on literacy, educational attainment and school attendance from national statistical offices around the world and disseminates them in tabular form in special issues of the United Nations Demographic Yearbook.

Fulltext publications and statistics from the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ) covering several areas including education.