National Center for Education Statistics Releases Public School
Data Report | Oct 15, 2012 The National Center for Education
Statistics (NCES) recently released report number 2012-325
entitled “Numbers and Types of Public Elementary and Secondary
Schools From the Common Core of Data: School Year 2010-11 -
First Look.” This report presents findings on the numbers and
types of public elementary and secondary schools in the United
States and other jurisdictions in the 2010–11 school year using
data from the Public Elementary/Secondary School Universe Survey
of the Common Core of Data (CCD) survey system. The CCD is an
annual collection of data that are reported by state education
agencies (SEAs) to the National Center for Education Statistics
through the U.S. Department of Education’s EDFacts collection
system. The purpose of this report was to introduce new data
through the presentation of tables containing descriptive
information. Selected findings include: - There were 98,817
operating public elementary/secon