The Membership file in the Non-Fiscal Common Core of Data specifies the populations served by the public schools, LEAs, and states that exist within the United States. This includes information on enrollment by grade, race, and sex.
Subparts of the CSP grant use CCD, EdFacts, and NPEFS to verify applicant eligibility and responses.
IDEA is the federal law that makes available a free appropriate public education to eligible children with disabilities, and ensures these students receive special education and related services. Part B (over 90% of all IDEA funds) provides funds for the education of children with disabilities. School districts must identify, locate, and evaluate all children with disabilities so states can then allocate IDEA funds down to districts to support their education.
EdFacts is a federal data collection that feeds into CCD – Membership and, therefore, is also an integral dependency for Title I, Part D calculations.
Grants are based on the share of a state's EL population compared to the country's EL population (80%), using the Common Core of Data, and the share of a state's immigrant child and youth population compared to the country's population (20%), using the CCD.
The Common Core of Data provides the total enrollment by school for both the RLIS and SRSA calculations.
Federal education data are collected across various agencies and programs, making it difficult to see how the pieces fit together. The Data Atlas brings these collections into a unified guide, detailing each dataset’s purpose, connections, and relevance to K–12 policy.
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Federal education grants depend on an underlying framework of demographic, geographic, and economic statistics to distribute funding to states. This interactive pathway reveals those connections, showing how administrative data flow into federal funding formulas and highlighting the real-world significance of these collections.