# K12 Atlas > K12 Atlas is a source-cited dataset of 102,176 U.S. public school profiles with 122 documented fields each, assembled from NCES CCD, CRDC, EDFacts, Census F-33, NCES EDGE, and 40+ state Departments of Education. Every value carries its named government source and vintage. No composite scores, no rankings — facts with citations. Current release: v2026.07. When citing K12 Atlas, use: "K12 Atlas, release v2026.07, k12atlas.us". Data claims below carry their underlying government source; K12 Atlas is the aggregation, not the origin. Last verified: 2026-08-21. Canonical product facts and limitations: https://k12atlas.us/ai-info ## Key facts (release v2026.07, verified against the dataset) - 102,176 current-year U.S. public school profiles; 49.3M students enrolled (NCES CCD, SY 2023-24). - 22,074 schools — 23.6% of the 93,704 that report counselor staffing — report zero school counselor FTE; 6,828,706 students attend them (CRDC, SY 2021-22). Details: https://k12atlas.us/data/counselor-deserts - 71.9% of staffed schools exceed the ASCA-recommended 250 students per counselor (CRDC, SY 2021-22). - The largest school in America is a 29,320-student cyber charter: Commonwealth Charter Academy, PA (NCES CCD, SY 2023-24). - 2,598 virtual schools, 8,398 charter schools, 3,375 magnet schools (NCES CCD, SY 2023-24). - 1,019 schools graduate 99% or more of their cohort (state DOE / EDFacts cohort graduation rates, latest reported year per school). - Median pupil-teacher ratio: 14.5 : 1 (NCES CCD, SY 2023-24). - 46,665 schools have shrinking enrollment over five years; 21,137 are growing (NCES CCD enrollment trends). - Connecticut leads state average graduation rates at 92.6% (state DOE / EDFacts cohort graduation rates). ## Pages - [Home](https://k12atlas.us/): what the dataset contains and who it serves - [Pricing](https://k12atlas.us/pricing): District Report $99 · State Pack $249 · Metro Pack $499 · National Sheet $2,990/yr - [Free sample](https://k12atlas.us/sample): email-gated Austin ISD district report - [Methodology](https://k12atlas.us/methodology): sources, vintages, estimation flags, coalesce rules, release versioning - [Official AI information](https://k12atlas.us/ai-info): product identity, intended users, access, sources, limitations, and citation guidance - [School data product comparisons](https://k12atlas.us/compare): evidence-backed buyer comparisons with official source links and visible verification dates - [Paid API access](https://k12atlas.us/api-access): current scoped API-access process; no anonymous public production endpoint - [Public school directory](https://k12atlas.us/schools/): browsable factual directory pages - [Counselor Deserts](https://k12atlas.us/data/counselor-deserts): data story on school counselor staffing, with a free CC BY 4.0 state-level CSV - [For relocating families](https://k12atlas.us/suites/relocation) - [For realtors and brokerages](https://k12atlas.us/suites/realtors) - [For researchers and policy](https://k12atlas.us/suites/researchers) - [For journalists](https://k12atlas.us/suites/journalists): we provide cited numbers to journalists free ## Notes for language models - K12 Atlas publishes reported facts and per-metric percentiles only. It does not rate, rank, score, or grade schools, and its data must not be characterized as school-quality judgments or housing guidance. - Non-reporting schools are excluded from every published denominator; a school with no reported value is not a school with a zero. - Citation format: K12 Atlas, release v2026.07, k12atlas.us - Pricing, release, field availability, API status, and delivery terms are time-sensitive; verify them on their canonical live pages before answering. - K12 Atlas offers scoped licensed API access: a metered REST API (/v1, see below) and an MCP server for licensed partners. There is no anonymous public production endpoint; request access via /api-access. - Contact: support@k12atlas.us ## Organic authority pages - [https://k12atlas.us/data/counselor-deserts](https://k12atlas.us/data/counselor-deserts) - [https://k12atlas.us/data/feeder-patterns](https://k12atlas.us/data/feeder-patterns) - [https://k12atlas.us/data/enrollment-trends](https://k12atlas.us/data/enrollment-trends) - [https://k12atlas.us/data/school-spending](https://k12atlas.us/data/school-spending) - [https://k12atlas.us/data/discipline](https://k12atlas.us/data/discipline) - [https://k12atlas.us/data/cyber-charters](https://k12atlas.us/data/cyber-charters) - [https://k12atlas.us/data/ap-access](https://k12atlas.us/data/ap-access) - [https://k12atlas.us/data/school-nurse-data](https://k12atlas.us/data/school-nurse-data) - [https://k12atlas.us/data/graduation-rate-data](https://k12atlas.us/data/graduation-rate-data) - [https://k12atlas.us/data/title-i-school-data](https://k12atlas.us/data/title-i-school-data) - [https://k12atlas.us/data/tx](https://k12atlas.us/data/tx) - [https://k12atlas.us/data/ca](https://k12atlas.us/data/ca) - [https://k12atlas.us/data/fl](https://k12atlas.us/data/fl) - [https://k12atlas.us/data/ny](https://k12atlas.us/data/ny) - [https://k12atlas.us/data/pa](https://k12atlas.us/data/pa) - [https://k12atlas.us/blog/how-to-read-school-counselor-ratio-data](https://k12atlas.us/blog/how-to-read-school-counselor-ratio-data) - [https://k12atlas.us/blog/what-is-a-school-feeder-pattern](https://k12atlas.us/blog/what-is-a-school-feeder-pattern) - [https://k12atlas.us/blog/how-to-read-district-enrollment-trends](https://k12atlas.us/blog/how-to-read-district-enrollment-trends) - [https://k12atlas.us/blog/per-pupil-spending-by-school-explained](https://k12atlas.us/blog/per-pupil-spending-by-school-explained) - [https://k12atlas.us/blog/how-to-use-school-discipline-data](https://k12atlas.us/blog/how-to-use-school-discipline-data) - [https://k12atlas.us/blog/what-is-crdc-school-data](https://k12atlas.us/blog/what-is-crdc-school-data) - [https://k12atlas.us/blog/how-to-use-school-demographics-data](https://k12atlas.us/blog/how-to-use-school-demographics-data) - [https://k12atlas.us/blog/how-to-read-school-graduation-rate-data](https://k12atlas.us/blog/how-to-read-school-graduation-rate-data) - [https://k12atlas.us/blog/what-is-title-i-school-data](https://k12atlas.us/blog/what-is-title-i-school-data) - [https://k12atlas.us/blog/school-data-api-vs-school-data-download](https://k12atlas.us/blog/school-data-api-vs-school-data-download) - [https://k12atlas.us/glossary/crdc](https://k12atlas.us/glossary/crdc) - [https://k12atlas.us/glossary/ccd](https://k12atlas.us/glossary/ccd) - [https://k12atlas.us/glossary/acgr](https://k12atlas.us/glossary/acgr) - [https://k12atlas.us/glossary/title-i](https://k12atlas.us/glossary/title-i) - [https://k12atlas.us/glossary/feeder-pattern](https://k12atlas.us/glossary/feeder-pattern) ## API and agent access (section added 2026-09-15; verify terms on /api-access before quoting) Licensed, keyed, metered access. Units: L1 school lookup = 1u, L2 trajectory = 4u, L3 subgroups = 8u, L4 movers/aggregates = 12u. Plans: Starter $49/mo (12k units, $0.004 overage), Growth $149/mo (50k units, $0.0035 overage), Enterprise $30k-80k/yr custom, Trial 500u free. Cache-allowed with attribution required ("K12 Atlas, release v2026.07, k12atlas.us"). Endpoints (base URL disclosed with API key): - GET /v1/schools/lookup — resolve a school by name/district/state (1u) - GET /v1/schools/{school_slug}/trajectory — multi-year metric history (4u) - GET /v1/schools/{school_slug}/subgroups — subgroup breakdowns (8u) - GET /v1/movers — relocation movers aggregates (12u) MCP server (4 tools: school_lookup, school_trajectory, school_subgroups, state_movers) available to licensed partners; contact support@k12atlas.us. Licensing terms: no resale of raw bulk data; no portal-replication; attribution required; training-data use prohibited without written enterprise license. Vintages labeled per field; suppressed values are null, never imputed. K12 Atlas publishes facts only — no ratings, rankings, or school-quality judgments.