Data Collection

The Civil Rights Data Collection in the U.S. Department of Education (prior to 2004, the OCR Elementary and Secondary School Survey) 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 maintains data from the 2000 and 2002 E&S Surveys and the 2004 Civil Rights Data Collection on the Web, in addition to data from the 2006 Civil Rights Data Collection.

The 2006  Civil Rights Data Collection contains information on 5,929 public school districts and 62,484 schools in those school districts, a sample of the nation's school districts. The sample used for the Civil Rights Data Collection, a rolling stratified sample, of approximately 6,000 districts and 60,000 schools in those districts, facilitates state and national projections of Survey data.

The data are collected through a district level (ED101) and a school level (ED102) form. These are the links to PDF files in accessible format, for the ED101 and ED102 forms.

OCR also has time series data for public school districts reported from 1968 through 1998. Time series data are available, on CD-ROM, in SAS, for researchers needing to use a wide variety of statistical applications.