School & District CharacteristicsPartially Active – the Comparable Wage Index for Teachers (CWIFT) and School Neighborhood Poverty Estimates have not been updated, but the remaining parts of EDGE remain active

Education Demographic and Geographic Estimates (EDGE)

EDGE creates geographic and demographic data by leveraging the Common Core of Data.

This includes:

School and Local Education Agency Geocodes
Composite School District Boundaries
NCES Locale Boundaries
Comparable Wage Index for Teachers (CWIFT)
School Neighborhood Poverty Indicators
Custom time-series data, using the American Community Survey, that provides insight into school-aged children and their households

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Specifications

Category: School & District Characteristics
Collection method: Common Core of Data (for Point Codes), SDRP (for district boundaries)
How often released: Annually
Timeline: Depends on the dataset, but soon after data is available from TIGER, CCD, and SDRP
Representative or comprehensive sample: Comprehensive
Level of data: All
Source: All of the above (census for what happened last year, states for CCD inputs, and districts for SDRP)
Status: Partially Active – the Comparable Wage Index for Teachers (CWIFT) and School Neighborhood Poverty Estimates have not been updated, but the remaining parts of EDGE remain active
Legislation/Regulation/Other: 43 U.S.C. Ch. 46

Field resources

More information

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/edge/About

Where this dataset is used

Answers these questions

Where are schools/districts/states located?

Used in these grants

Title V
NCES catalogs districts as rural by first cataloging schools as city/town/suburban/rural and then looking across the "plurality" of locale types across a district's schools.

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