This dataset outlines the number of students considered to be students with disabilities — that is, eligible children and youth identified by a team of professionals as having a disability that adversely affects academic performance and as being in need of special education and related services. This data is collected by the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) in the Department of Education.
This dataset does not feed a federal formula grant tracked in the Atlas. See all nine grants.
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.