Every school, on the record.
SchoolData is a student-led open data project. We bring federal, state and school sources together into one consistent record for every K–12 school in the US, attach a source to every fact, and ask schools to confirm what we found.
Uneven coverage.
Information about schools is scattered across federal statistics, state directories and school websites, and it is unevenly represented in Wikipedia and Wikidata, which search engines and AI tools draw on heavily. A large high school may have a detailed article; the middle school nearby often has only a directory listing.
Most articles are about high schools. How coverage varies with locale and school poverty is something we are measuring, not assuming.
What we add.
Federal data is the starting point, not the product. For each school we measure whether Wikipedia and Wikidata cover it, compare federal, state and school records and flag where they disagree, link every fact to a public source, add facts federal data does not carry (year opened, namesake, programs, awards), and ask the school to confirm the result.
Work with us.
Help complete the record for your school or district. We send a short fact sheet compiled from public sources; someone at the school marks each fact correct or incorrect and fills in what we could not find. It takes about ten minutes.
Get in touchPrivacy. We collect only public, factual information about schools. We never collect, request, or store personal student data.
SchoolData is a nonprofit project fiscally sponsored by Hack Club Bank, a 501(c)(3) organization.
Boxuan Shan, Founder & Student Lead