Data Collection

The OCR Elementary and Secondary School Survey (E&S Survey) in the U.S. Department of Education is used by the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) to obtain data regarding access to elementary and secondary schools and to programs and services within those schools. OCR plans to keep the most current E&S Survey cycle on the Web.

The 2002 E&S Survey contains information on 5,837 public school districts and 58,615 schools in those school districts, a sample of the nation's school districts. The sample used for the Elementary and Secondary Survey, a rolling stratified sample, of approximately 6,000 districts and 60,000 schools in those districts, facilitates state and national projections of Survey data.

OCR also has time series data for public school districts reported from 1968 through 1998. Time series are on a CD-ROM in two software languages; SAS for researchers needing to use a wide variety of statistical applications, and Microsoft Access for others needing to use a relational data base format.