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Statistical Compendia

AIR’s experts compile, maintain, and analyze survey data for the Condition of Education, Digest of Education Statistics, and Projections of Education Statistics. AIR staff author reports and indicators and make available the information gathered by federal and non-federal education data providers. In addition to these annual reports, AIR has responsibility for a variety of other recurring and one-time analytic, indicator, and tabular reports on education statistics, including those focusing on minority populations and the disadvantaged.

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Recent Reports

• New Report on Trends in U.S Education Finds Fewer High School Students Are Employed Compared to 1990

  AIR experts played a key role in producing the latest edition of The Condition of Education 2012, a congressionally mandated annual report that provides a definitive look at developments and trends in U.S. education. Released by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), this year’s report takes a close look at high schools and how they have changed over the last few decades. The report found that only 16 percent of high school students were employed in 2010, compared to 32 percent in 1990.

• Characteristics of the 100 Largest Public Elementary and Secondary School Districts in the United States

  This report is released annually and provides basic information from the Common Core of Data (CCD) about the nation's largest public school districts. The data include such characteristics as the number of students and teachers, number of high school completers and the averaged freshman graduation rate, and revenues and expenditures.

• Public Elementary and Secondary Students, Staff, Schools, and School Districts: School Year 2003-04

  This report presents information about public elementary and secondary education for the 2003–04 school year. The data were provided by state education agencies through the Common Core of Data (CCD) survey system.

Recent Projects

• Common Core of Data

  The Common Core of Data (CCD) is an annual collection of public elementary and secondary education data administered by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). The Federal Statistics Program’s CCD team provides professional and technical services for all aspects of data file preparation, file review, data analysis, preparation of data file documentation, and writing of substantive reports.