The F-33 survey collects school finance data for elementary and secondary public school systems (local education agencies [LEAs]) in all 50 states and Washington, D.C. Data include measures of revenues by source, expenditures by category, and aspects of debt and assets. This data is used to allocate specific Federal grants, conduct research on how well states and districts allocate and use resources, and used to control for spending in research studies.
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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We built the Data Atlas by starting with the questions that matter. Select a question to discover what each federal dataset can tell you and how it connects to real-world policy issues.
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.