# US Charter Schools — U.S. location dataset

All 8,234 locations in the U.S., as one CSV: 29 fields per record, 46 states, file built October 7, 2026. $39 one-time, with up to 10 real rows free before you buy.

Canonical URL: https://locationlists.com/data/charter-school-list

All 8,234 US charter schools from the federal Common Core of Data for the 2024-25 school year, with street address, coordinates, enrollment, grade range, teacher count and district, and 97% fill on the qualifying fields. Charter schools buy differently from district schools: they are individually or network-operated rather than centrally procured, decisions sit with the school or a small management organization, and they turn over faster, opening and closing at a rate no district does. That makes a current, address-level list the practical basis for selling curriculum, furniture, technology, food service, facilities and student information systems. Enrollment is the qualifying field most buyers sort on, and it is present on nearly every record.

## The figures

- Records: 8,234 locations
- States: 46
- Coverage: U.S.
- Fields: 29
- Price: $39 one-time, CSV download, commercial license (https://locationlists.com/license)
- File built on October 7, 2026. Not on an automatic refresh schedule.
- File last modified: 2026-10-07

The file has all 8,234 locations across 46 states in one download. Building the same list by searching one area at a time tends to miss places, and a missed place looks like a gap in coverage that is not really there.

## Fields

- `name`: Business or facility name
- `schoolType`
- `affiliation`
- `gradeRange`
- `enrollment`
- `teachers`
- `address`: Street address
- `city`: City
- `state`: Two-letter state code
- `zip`: ZIP code
- `country`: Country code
- `phone`: Phone number where published
- `latitude`: GPS latitude where published
- `longitude`: GPS longitude where published
- `county`: County, where the source publishes it
- `sourceUrl`: The public source this row came from
- `ncesId`
- `leaId`
- `schoolLevel`
- `schoolType2`
- `virtual`
- `status`: License status as the source publishes it
- `studentTeacherRatio`
- `freeReducedLunch`
- `locale`
- `referenceYear`
- `geo_precision`
- `county_fips`
- `address_quality`

## What we did to this data

Unified 147 city spellings, corrected 9 misspelled city names, added the county to 8,229 listings, re-placed 1 misplaced map points, flagged 44 incomplete addresses and measured 8,234 rows. Rebuilt October 7, 2026 from nces.ed.gov.

## How complete the key fields are

phone 100%, street address 100%, city 100%, state 100%, ZIP code 100%, latitude 100%, longitude 100%. 29 of 29 columns are filled on at least half the rows.

## Ask this list a question with a link

No connector and no account; each link answers with the matching count, preview rows and the price for just that part.

- [Only California, the state with the most](https://locationlists.com/find?dataset=charter-school-list&state=CA)
- [Within 25 miles of Phoenix, AZ, the busiest area](https://locationlists.com/find?dataset=charter-school-list&near=Phoenix+AZ&radius=25)
- [Within a 30-minute drive of Phoenix, AZ](https://locationlists.com/find?dataset=charter-school-list&near=Phoenix+AZ&drive=30)
- [Only rows where enrollment is over 227](https://locationlists.com/find?dataset=charter-school-list&where=enrollment%3Agt%3A227)
- [Every K-12 Schools list combined, within 25 miles of New York, NY](https://locationlists.com/find?category=k12-schools&near=New+York+NY&radius=25)
- [Each one's nearest US Private Schools, in California, with miles](https://locationlists.com/find?dataset=charter-school-list&state=CA&relate=nearest&k=1&b.dataset=private-school-list&b.state=CA)
- [The whole list: add a city, state, ZIP code or distance](https://locationlists.com/find?dataset=charter-school-list)

## The same dataset, for machines

- Record as JSON: https://locationlists.com/data/charter-school-list/dataset.json
- Free sample, up to 10 real rows: https://locationlists.com/data/charter-school-list/sample.csv or https://locationlists.com/data/charter-school-list/sample.json
- Buy link (opens Stripe Checkout): https://locationlists.com/data/charter-school-list/buy

## Questions

### How current is this?

File built on October 7, 2026. It is not on an automatic refresh schedule, so check the build date above before you buy.

### Is this a register or a survey?

The Common Core of Data is a federal administrative collection covering all public schools, which makes it effectively complete for charters rather than a sample. That is different from our private school dataset, which comes from a survey.

### Does it include the management organizations?

It carries the district and agency each charter reports under, which identifies network-run schools in most cases. A clean charter-management-organization rollup is a custom enrichment we can quote.

### How is this data cleaned?

Every rebuild runs the same steps and counts what each one changed. For the current file, rebuilt October 7, 2026 from nces.ed.gov: Merged 0 duplicate listings that had the same business name, street address and ZIP code, keeping every filled-in detail from both (October 7, 2026). Unified 147 city names written more than one way within the same ZIP code (for example with and without a space or an abbreviation) to the US Census Bureau spelling (October 7, 2026). Corrected 9 misspelled city names to the US Census Bureau place name for their ZIP code (October 7, 2026). Added map coordinates to 0 listings that had none, from the US Census Bureau address geocoder or, where the street address could not be matched, the centre of the ZIP code (October 7, 2026). Set the county and its federal county code on 8,229 listings, matched to the US Census Bureau county list from the county the source records, the listing's map point, or its ZIP code area (October 7, 2026). Checked every map point against the state in its address and re-placed 1 points that fell outside that state (October 7, 2026). Flagged 44 addresses that are incomplete, a PO box, or missing a house number, in an address quality column (October 7, 2026). Checked that the row count, state count and field completeness published for this file were measured from the file itself (October 7, 2026).

### Isn't this free on nces.ed.gov?

The underlying records are public on nces.ed.gov. What you pay for is the work between that public release and this file: unified 147 city spellings, corrected 9 misspelled city names, added the county to 8,229 listings, re-placed 1 misplaced map points, flagged 44 incomplete addresses and measured 8,234 rows. The current file was rebuilt October 7, 2026 from nces.ed.gov. Doing it yourself means downloading the full release, repeating each of those steps, and repeating them again every time the source updates.

### How complete is each field?

Measured on every row of the current file, the share of rows that carry each key field: phone 100%, street address 100%, city 100%, state 100%, ZIP code 100%, latitude 100%, longitude 100%. 29 of 29 columns are filled on at least half the rows.