# US Private Schools — U.S. location dataset

All 22,202 locations in the U.S., as one CSV: 25 fields per record, 51 states, file built September 14, 2026. $69 one-time, with up to 10 real rows free before you buy.

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

22,202 named US private schools from the federal private school geocode file, with street address, coordinates, and — joined from the private school survey — enrollment, grade range and religious affiliation on 81% of records. A note on the count, because the usual figure is wrong: the '30,000 US private schools' number people quote is the government's weighted universe ESTIMATE of 29,727, not a list. Only 22,202 responding schools are actually published by name, so 22,202 named schools is the real ceiling and anyone selling you 30,000 is padding. Private schools are independent buyers with no district procurement above them, which makes them unusually accessible for curriculum, uniforms, food service, technology, facilities and fundraising vendors. Affiliation matters commercially — Catholic diocesan schools buy through the diocese, independent schools do not.

## The figures

- Records: 22,202 locations
- States: 51
- Coverage: U.S.
- Fields: 25
- Price: $69 one-time, CSV download, commercial license (https://locationlists.com/license)
- File built on September 14, 2026. Not on an automatic refresh schedule.
- File last modified: 2026-09-14

The file has all 22,202 locations across 51 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
- `ppin`
- `typology`
- `schoolLevel`
- `locale`
- `referenceYear`
- `characteristicsYear`
- `geo_precision`
- `county_fips`
- `address_quality`

## What we did to this data

Merged 308 duplicate listings, unified 436 city spellings, corrected 39 misspelled city names, added the county to 22,202 listings, re-placed 1 misplaced map points, flagged 108 incomplete addresses and measured 22,202 rows. Rebuilt September 14, 2026 from nces.ed.gov.

## How complete the key fields are

phone 79%, street address 100%, city 100%, state 100%, ZIP code 100%, latitude 100%, longitude 100%. 25 of 25 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=private-school-list&state=CA)
- [Within 25 miles of New York, NY, the busiest area](https://locationlists.com/find?dataset=private-school-list&near=New+York+NY&radius=25)
- [Within a 30-minute drive of New York, NY](https://locationlists.com/find?dataset=private-school-list&near=New+York+NY&drive=30)
- [Only rows where enrollment is over 397](https://locationlists.com/find?dataset=private-school-list&where=enrollment%3Agt%3A397)
- [Every K-12 Schools list combined, within 25 miles of Edgewater, NJ](https://locationlists.com/find?category=k12-schools&near=Edgewater+NJ&radius=25)
- [Each one's nearest US Public Schools, in California, with miles](https://locationlists.com/find?dataset=private-school-list&state=CA&relate=nearest&k=1&b.dataset=public-school-list&b.state=CA)
- [The whole list: add a city, state, ZIP code or distance](https://locationlists.com/find?dataset=private-school-list)

## The same dataset, for machines

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

## Questions

### Why 22,510 and not the 30,000 I have seen quoted?

Because 30,000 is a statistical estimate of how many private schools exist, produced by weighting survey responses. The government only publishes 22,202 responding schools by name. You cannot sell to an estimate, so this file is the named schools. We would rather explain the gap than quote the bigger number.

### How current is it, and why two reference years?

File built on September 14, 2026. It is not on an automatic refresh schedule, so check the build date above before you buy.

### Is religious affiliation included?

Yes, where the survey captured it, on about 81% of records. It is one of the most useful segmentation fields in this market because affiliation drives how a school buys — a diocesan school often purchases through the diocese while an independent school decides alone.

### How is this data cleaned?

Every rebuild runs the same steps and counts what each one changed. For the current file, rebuilt September 14, 2026 from nces.ed.gov: Merged 308 duplicate listings that had the same business name, street address and ZIP code, keeping every filled-in detail from both (September 14, 2026). Unified 436 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 (September 14, 2026). Corrected 39 misspelled city names to the US Census Bureau place name for their ZIP code (September 14, 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 (September 14, 2026). Set the county and its federal county code on 22,202 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 (September 14, 2026). Checked every map point against the state in its address and re-placed 1 points that fell outside that state (September 14, 2026). Flagged 108 addresses that are incomplete, a PO box, or missing a house number, in an address quality column (September 14, 2026). Checked that the row count, state count and field completeness published for this file were measured from the file itself (September 14, 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: merged 308 duplicate listings, unified 436 city spellings, corrected 39 misspelled city names, added the county to 22,202 listings, re-placed 1 misplaced map points, flagged 108 incomplete addresses and measured 22,202 rows. The current file was rebuilt September 14, 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 79%, street address 100%, city 100%, state 100%, ZIP code 100%, latitude 100%, longitude 100%. 25 of 25 columns are filled on at least half the rows.