American Context

DATA SOURCE · NCES-CCD

NCES Common Core of Data

The first active slice is a state-level aggregate derived from 2024-25 preliminary directory records; school and district nodes are deferred.

National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Department of Education

  • Active
  • Primary government
  • Bulk file

Corpus snapshot

As of May 31, 2026, 11:55 PM UTC

Live counts from the American Context database. Counts reflect what has been ingested as of the timestamp above — not necessarily every record held by the upstream source.

Metric observations

55

metric_observation

Ontology edges

3,914

profile edge types

Source releases

1

tracked in source_release

Most recent release

NCES CCD preliminary directory 2024-2025 0a

Release date
May 14, 2025
Retrieved
May 3, 2026, 09:33 PM UTC
Dataset
school-universe

Release source ↗

What we ingest

Active datasets that flow into the American Context corpus.

DatasetGeographyTimeCadenceCaveats
CCD preliminary directory-derived state open-school counts
school-universe
stateschool_year—
  • · Active slice is a state aggregate from the 2024-25 preliminary directory 0a file, not school-level entities.

Planned or deferred

Datasets profiled but not yet active.

DatasetGeographyTimeCadenceCaveats
CCD school district finance survey
district-finance
state, districtfiscal_year—
  • · Planned follow-up dataset; not active in the first NCES CCD pilot.

How American Context connects this

  • ›An education observation is tied to a geography.education_observation_in_geo
  • ›An education observation is tied to a time period.education_observation_in_period

Coverage and limits

  • ·The first active slice is a state-level aggregate derived from 2024-25 preliminary directory records; school and district nodes are deferred.
  • ·NCES 2024-25 universe 1a is known to exist but has not yet been acquired and validated for ingestion.
  • ·Preliminary/provisional/final vintages must be represented as distinct source releases.

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