Statistics: Education

Education statistics tend to be fairly easy to find. The United States collects a tremendous amount of data from public schools; much of these can be found through each state's department of education. For example, if you are looking for statistics from the St. Peter school district, start with the Minnesota Department of Education's website, where you can see data for a specific school district, as well as comparative data from other schools. 

For other countries, see if the country you're studying has a national department or ministry for education.

You can also find statistics within scholarly literature, so pay attention to any statistics you come across and track down where the researcher found them (or if the researcher generated the statistics through their own scholarship).

Be sure to visit the library's Education research guide for more ideas. And please reach out to a librarian for help, too. We enjoy helping you identify and track down statistics. Remember that if you google "education statistics" that you make sure you're evaluating the site so you know what you're looking at and where the data originated. Librarians can help you vet sites, too, and are happy to take a look at what you've found.

Within the United States:

• Local school district website for local data
• The state's education department. For instance, if you're researching Minnesota schools, go to the Minnesota Department of Education's website and see what data you can find. Each state will have its own education department
• United States Department of Education

Internationally:

• See if the country has a government department, office, or ministry for education

Here are some additional sites to search:

Scholarly Literature

You can also look at published research to find statistics, either reported by scholars from external sources or data gathered by the scholars directly. To search scholarly literature in Education, use the following database: