US Public Schools
U.S. · 101,110 locations

One public school campus, located at its physical street address — not its mailing address and not its district office. The map coordinates are the federal government's own geocode of that address, which is what a radius or drive-time filter needs.

The federal school directory for 2024-25 holds 101,110 records. 1,068 of them are schools the directory itself marks as closed for the year; they are left out, and what remains — 101,110 — is every public school operating that year. Every row carries a status column, so the 872 new schools, the 372 that were due to open and the 501 that were temporarily inactive can be kept or dropped with one filter.

Yes. 8,234 rows are charter schools, flagged Yes in the charter column — exactly the same schools, by federal school ID, as our US Charter Schools list, so there is no need to buy both. 3,707 schools are in states with no charter law and read "Not applicable".

Street address, city, state, postcode and map coordinates on every row. A phone number on 100.0%. A school website on 68.8% — the website is what the school reported to the federal directory, and a blank means it reported none.

Yes. Enrolment is broken out by grade, from pre-kindergarten to grade 13, plus ungraded and adult education, so "how many 9th to 12th graders are within 20 miles" is a sum of four columns. A blank grade means the school does not offer that grade or did not report it — never zero students.

The federal file publishes counts: students eligible for free lunch, for reduced-price lunch, and the two together. We ship the counts and divide each by the school's enrolment for the two percentage columns, to one decimal place. Where a count was not reported, or where the free-lunch count is larger than enrolment (344 schools, an inconsistency in what the state reported), the percentage is left blank rather than shown above 100. The lunch programme column says when a school serves every student free under the Community Eligibility Provision, which is why some schools show very high eligibility.

Yes. Every school carries the federal code and name of the metropolitan or micropolitan area it sits in, the combined statistical area, its congressional district and both state legislative districts, from the government's own school geocode. A blank metro means the school is in no metro area at all — 11,128 schools are.

Before selling it, we unified 1,548 city names that were written more than one way inside the same postcode, corrected 78 misspelled city names, standardised the capitalisation on 39,130 more, re-placed 7 map points that fell outside their own state, and kept 99 schools that share a name and an address with another but have their own federal school ID — separate schools on one campus, which a plain duplicate check would have deleted. Every row also carries an address quality flag (complete, missing house number, or PO box) and a coordinate quality flag.

Because the federal source says so, and an empty cell is easier to work with than a code you have to decode. The source writes the letter N for "not applicable", M for "missing" and -1, -2 or -9 for counts that were not reported or not applicable; all of those are empty here. An empty count means not reported, never none: a real zero stays a zero. In this build we replaced 119,682 such codes across 10 text columns with empty cells, so a completeness figure means what it says.

Yes. Every row carries its federal district ID (leaId), the same ID on every row of our US School Districts list, so the two join directly with no name matching.

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

All of it is United States federal government data, in the public domain: the National Center for Education Statistics' Common Core of Data for the 2024-25 school year — the public school directory and school characteristics files, the EDGE public school administrative data layer, and the EDGE public school geocode. Nothing in the file was bought, licensed or taken from another company's product. Before publishing we checked 25 randomly chosen schools against the government's live data and an independent copy of the same collection and found 0 disagreements.

No. There are no personal names, job titles or email addresses anywhere in this file. The federal school collection does not publish any person at school level, and we do not guess names or invent email patterns. If you need a named contact you will need a contact database on top of this — which is why this file costs a fraction of one.

No. The federal school files for 2024-25 do not publish a Title I field or a magnet field — we checked every one of the five school-level files the government releases. We left both columns out rather than fill them from another source or another year. The free and reduced-price lunch counts and the lunch programme column are the current federal measures of a school's need.

No. Test results are published state by state, not in the federal school collection, and school ratings are other companies' own scores. Nothing in this file is a rating.

No. This is every public school, charter schools included. Private schools are collected by a separate federal survey and sold as their own list, US Private Schools. The two never overlap, so they can be stacked without removing duplicates.