Institute of Education Sciences

This study examined the feasibility and effectiveness of using email and text message communications (called nudges) to increase the number of parent and guardian visits to the Reading Initiative for Student Excellence (R.I.S.E.) state literacy website. Learn more. 

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) released findings from the October School Pulse Panel (SPP) survey from a collection of public schools in four U.S. Outlying Areas. These SPP data examine staffing, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) School Meal programs, school supply chain issues, learning mode offerings, and quarantine ...

This resource (PDF, 5 pages) summarizes data patterns and provides analyses of the relationship between internet access and academic performance. It also investigates differences in student access to the Internet by poverty level. Learn more. 

This resource (PDF, 5 pages) examines differences in postsecondary enrollment status by students’ high school locale (city, suburban, town, and rural) in the following three ways:   Differences in enrollment status immediately following students’ expected year of high school graduation.   Differences in the enrollment status of students 3 years after their expected year ...

This resource (PDF, 5 pages) compares, by locale, the percentages of specific types of staff employed by districts and overall staffing levels—as measured by pupil/staff and pupil/teacher ratios—in public elementary and secondary schools and school systems using data reported by public schools and districts. Learn more.  ...

This blog explores the Equity in Action Project, which involved five California school districts committed to racial equity change. The overarching goal for these districts was to increase the safety, well-being, and engagement of Black and Latinx students and their families. Positive takeaways from the district participants included learning the ...

This report (PDF, 18 pages) examines the characteristics and college readiness of high school students who earned different types of biliteracy seals, the number of students who met some requirements for a seal but did not earn one, and the effect of earning a seal on college outcomes. Findings and ...

This report is a commemorative guide that is intended to provide a better understanding of the history and use of federal education statistics that have been collected and reported by this agency since 1868. Statistics covered in the report include:  Number of elementary and secondary schools  Enrollment in elementary and secondary schools  Attendance ...

This study (PDF, 18 pages) analyzed data from 2015/16 through 2020/21 for districts that received Grow Your Own (GYO) funding in the first two grant cycles and for districts in the same locales within the same regions that did not receive GYO funding.   The GYO grant program was established to encourage ...

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) released a set of web tables that contains data on Graduation Rates for Selected Cohorts, 2013-18; Outcome Measures for cohort year 2013–14; Student Financial Aid in Postsecondary Institutions, Academic Year 2020–21; and Admissions in Postsecondary Institutions, fall 2021. Findings are from the winter ...