The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 (HHFKA) formally established a Farm to School Program within USDA to improve access to local foods in schools. In order to establish realistic goals with regard to increasing the availability of local foods in schools, in 2013, USDA conducted the first nationwide Farm to School Census (the Census). In 2015, USDA conducted a second Farm to School Census to measure progress towards reaching this goal.

The Farm to School Census measures USDA's progress toward improving access to local foods in schools. The web-based interface allows users to run customized searches using data from the Farm to School Census. From a total of 18,104 public, private, and charter school districts in the target list frame, 12,585 schools and school districts completed usable responses for a response rate of 70%. Visualizations display national and state level data, and explanatory notes for each portion of the survey questionnaire are provided. Users can focus their search by location/state/school district/zip code, participation level, local food purchased category (fruit, vegetables, fluid milk, other dairy, meat/poultry, eggs, seafood, plant-based protein, grains/flour, baked goods, herbs), and sources (purchased directly or through intermediary). Resources in this dataset:Resource Title: Census Data Explorer | USDA-FNS Farm to School Census. File Name: Web Page, url: https://farmtoschoolcensus.fns.usda.gov/census-results/census-data-explorer This searchable database allows users to run customized searches using data from the Farm to School Census.

Abstract

In an effort to make adequate and reliable data and information available for scientific policy formulation, planning and implementation of various programmes and projects in education in Ghana, the Ministry of Education launched the Education Manageme nt Information System (EMIS) Project in January, 1997 with technical support during the first and second Phases from the Harvard University and funds from the World Bank and the Government of Ghana. As an integral part of the Free, Compulsory and Universal Basic Education (FCUBE) Programme, the EMIS Project was planned to build on the already existing EMIS established in 1988 in the Ministry as part of the Education Reforms. Currently, technical support is being given by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). Through the EMIS, a strong database has been established within the Ministry of Education. Twenty four basic school censuses have so far been conducted since 1988 and the reports on them are available in the Ministry. This is the Twelfth senior high school census in recent times. This report is presented to provide and upgrade basic data and planning parameters on enrolment, teaching staff, school facilities and examination results. This year's information on Senior High Schools has been produced at national and regional levels. The report is presented in four sections as follows.

Section One gives a brief introduction of the report highlighting briefly the EMIS Project.

Section Two gives a brief summary of the analysis of the data. An attempt has been made in the analysis to compare the previous census (2011/2012) results with those of the current census. An effort has also been made to analyse the data by type of education, region and gender.

Section Three gives a summary of tables, charts and maps for basic Schools. The arrangement of tables followed immediately by maps and charts has been used to facilitate visualisation of the concepts being presented. Section Four provides detailed statistics at the national and regional levels by type of education.

Geographic coverage

National level Region District

Analysis unit

Questionnaire admiistered to all Basic schools in Ghana to collect data on type of school-(Public or Private), Location, locality type (Rural or Urban), Details of teachers, textbooks, Enrolment, Facilities, Rooms Condition etc.

Universe

Basic Schools level

Kind of data

Census/enumeration data [cen]

Sampling procedure

14,800 Basic Schools were selected for the census of Ghana Annual Schools

Sampling deviation

No deviation

Mode of data collection

Other [oth]

Research instrument

The questionnaire consist of the following;

SCHOOL IDENTIFICATION
SCHOOL PROFILE AND ORGANISATION SCHOOL INFRASTRUCTURE
SCHOOL MANAGEMENT
SCHOOL BUILDING CHARACTERISTICS OF SCHOOL'S MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT PUPILS AND TEACHER TEXTBOOKS
NON TEACHING STAFF INFORMATION
ENROLMENT BY GRADE, BY SEX AND BY AGE
PUPIL ATTENDANCE AND MOVEMENT
TEACHER PROFILES
TEACHER PERIODS AND SUBJECTS TAUGHT PUPIL AND TEACHER INFORMATION
STAFF MOVEMENT
Income and Expenditures of the school in 2012-2013

Cleaning operations

1. Question to Question Vetting by CS and Stats Officers
2. In built Consistency checks in applications
3. Checks from programmers

Response rate

100% coverage for Public 85% coverage for Private

Sampling error estimates

No sampling error

Data appraisal

No other forms of appraisal reported

In accordance with the provisions of section 22.1-281 through 286, Code of Virginia, March 1 through July 15, 1999 was designated as the period during which the 1999 school census was conducted and completed. The report presents the 1999 summary count of all people ages 5-19, residing in their respective counties, cities, and towns to the Department of Education. Also listed is the December 1, 1998 special education child of persons ages 2,3,4,20 and 21. The 1999 census count and the special education count are combined to provide the student count for the sales tax distribution.

The underlying data provides breakdowns at school level. It supports published statistics between 2002 and 2009. Statistics published before 2010 are available on the UK Government Web Archive. Note: the search function is not available on archived content so please use the filters on the left of each page.

The annual school census data return is mandatory for schools to complete.

Schools Census information regarding pupils at special schools in Northern Ireland

Note: This version supersedes version 1: https://doi.org/10.15482/USDA.ADC/1522654. In Fall of 2019 the USDA Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) conducted the third Farm to School Census. The 2019 Census was sent via email to 18,832 school food authorities (SFAs) including all public, private, and charter SFAs, as well as residential care institutions, participating in the National School Lunch Program. The questionnaire collected data on local food purchasing, edible school gardens, other farm to school activities and policies, and evidence of economic and nutritional impacts of participating in farm to school activities. A total of 12,634 SFAs completed usable responses to the 2019 Census. Version 2 adds the weight variable, “nrweight”, which is the Non-response weight. Processing methods and equipment used The 2019 Census was administered solely via the web. The study team cleaned the raw data to ensure the data were as correct, complete, and consistent as possible. This process involved examining the data for logical errors, contacting SFAs and consulting official records to update some implausible values, and setting the remaining implausible values to missing. The study team linked the 2019 Census data to information from the National Center of Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data (CCD). Records from the CCD were used to construct a measure of urbanicity, which classifies the area in which schools are located. Study date(s) and duration Data collection occurred from September 9 to December 31, 2019. Questions asked about activities prior to, during and after SY 2018-19. The 2019 Census asked SFAs whether they currently participated in, had ever participated in or planned to participate in any of 30 farm to school activities. An SFA that participated in any of the defined activities in the 2018-19 school year received further questions. Study spatial scale (size of replicates and spatial scale of study area) Respondents to the survey included SFAs from all 50 States as well as American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Washington, DC. Level of true replication Unknown Sampling precision (within-replicate sampling or pseudoreplication) No sampling was involved in the collection of this data. Level of subsampling (number and repeat or within-replicate sampling) No sampling was involved in the collection of this data. Study design (before–after, control–impacts, time series, before–after-control–impacts) None – Non-experimental Description of any data manipulation, modeling, or statistical analysis undertaken Each entry in the dataset contains SFA-level responses to the Census questionnaire for SFAs that responded. This file includes information from only SFAs that clicked “Submit” on the questionnaire. (The dataset used to create the 2019 Farm to School Census Report includes additional SFAs that answered enough questions for their response to be considered usable.) In addition, the file contains constructed variables used for analytic purposes. The file does not include weights created to produce national estimates for the 2019 Farm to School Census Report. The dataset identified SFAs, but to protect individual privacy the file does not include any information for the individual who completed the questionnaire. Description of any gaps in the data or other limiting factors See the full 2019 Farm to School Census Report [https://www.fns.usda.gov/cfs/farm-school-census-and-comprehensive-review] for a detailed explanation of the study’s limitations. Outcome measurement methods and equipment used None Resources in this dataset:Resource Title: 2019 Farm to School Codebook with Weights. File Name: Codebook_Update_02SEP21.xlsxResource Description: 2019 Farm to School Codebook with WeightsResource Title: 2019 Farm to School Data with Weights CSV. File Name: census2019_public_use_with_weight.csvResource Description: 2019 Farm to School Data with Weights CSVResource Title: 2019 Farm to School Data with Weights SAS R Stata and SPSS Datasets. File Name: Farm_to_School_Data_AgDataCommons_SAS_SPSS_R_STATA_with_weight.zipResource Description: 2019 Farm to School Data with Weights SAS R Stata and SPSS Datasets

The School Census is a statutory data collection for all maintained nursery, primary, secondary, middle-deemed primary, middle-deemed secondary, local authority maintained special and non-maintained special schools, academies including free schools, studio schools and university technical colleges and city technology colleges in England. Service children’s education schools may also participate on a voluntary basis. The School Census collects information about individual pupils and information about the schools themselves, such as their educational provision. The individual pupil information collected includes free school meal eligibility, ethnicity, special educational needs, attendance and exclusions. The School Census is collected on a termly basis with 3 collections per calendar year Spring School Census in January, Summer School Census in May and Autumn School Census in October. The School Census was first collected in 2006 for secondary schools only and then for all schools from 2007 onwards. Prior to the School Census this information was collected on an annual basis in January via the Pupil Level Annual School Census.

School enrollment data for each public school in the ACT. The number of students in each class is reported in February and August each year. Non-Government schools are only reported in February.

Census.gov / 2023 Public Elementary-Secondary Education Finance Data

Overview

Data

census.gov (school-finances)
census.gov (geo)
census.gov (SAIPE) - the Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE)

Example usage

Colab notebook
Blog post

License

The U.S. Census Bureau generally makes its data and information publicly available without requiring a specific license, meaning you can use it for most purposes, including commercial use, without explicit permission or payment, as it is government-produced information. The Census Bureau's website (census.gov) states that its data is publicly accessible, and for the specific dataset mentioned, it is likely covered under the general policy of public data availability from the Census Bureau.

Abstract

Education information is essential for the management of the education system in the country. Without proper information the situation of education cannot be assessed and the causes leading to problems cannot be analysed. In the absence of such analysis, actions to remedy the problems, that deny the rights of children to quality basic education cannot be assured.

The Ministry of Education has conducted an uninterrupted series of annual school census for wel over four decades. The main objective of the census is to collect following information - Information about the school - Students - Teachers

Geographic coverage

National Coverage - Government Schools

Analysis unit

School Student Teacher

Universe

All Government Schools

Kind of data

Census/enumeration data [cen]

Mode of data collection

Mail Questionnaire [mail]

This data file contains school district-level data from the following two sources: (1) the National Institute of Education (NIE) Special Tabulations of 1970 Census data, retabulated to 1973-1974 school district boundaries, and (2) the 1970 Census of Population and Housing Fifth Count data. The data in this collection were extracted from the 1976-1977 Merged Federal File produced by AUI Policy Research. Since some districts on the 1976-1977 Merged Federal File had consolidated by 1978-1979, NIE Special Tabulations data for these districts were combined. The Census data file was created in three steps. First, a skeleton file was created, containing one record for each school district on the 1978-1979 Merged Federal File. Each record on the skeleton file contained those data items in the School District Identification segment on the Merged Federal File. Second, the NIE Special Tabulations data were merged by the Office of Education (OE) state code and Local Education Agency (LEA) code to the skeleton file. Finally, Census Fifth Count records were merged by OE state code and LEA code to the skeleton file.

This dataset allows users to drill-down into the data from the USDA Farm to School Census. Once you’ve conducted your query, you can easily download your results in an excel file.

The Farm to School Census is a dataset created by the USDA Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) to track farm-to-school initiatives nationwide. Launched in 2013 under the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, it surveys school food authorities (SFAs)—entities managing school meal programs—to assess their participation in farm-to-school activities. The dataset includes responses from over 11,800 SFAs across all 50 states and U.S. territories, detailing local food purchasing practices, types of activities (e.g., school gardens, farm partnerships, direct purchases), and challenges/opportunities faced. Its primary purpose is to monitor program growth, inform policy, and support efforts to increase local food access in schools. Key features include its comprehensive geographic coverage, quadrennial updates (with datasets available from 2013, 2015, 2019, and 2023), and interactive tools for exploring trends in local food procurement and program participation. Unique aspects include its role as the sole national data source on farm-to-school efforts and the availability of downloadable data for analysis. The census serves researchers, policymakers, and stakeholders aiming to strengthen school food systems and local agriculture economies.

This dataset contains poverty estimates at school district level for population of 5 to 17 years old based on US Census Bureau program, Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE). The information regarding counties and states where these schools are located is also available in the dataset.

Abstract

The Ministry of Education has conducted an uninterrupted series of annual private school census for well over four decades. The main objective of the census is to collect following information - Information about the schools - Students - Teachers

Geographic coverage

National Coverage - Private Schools

Analysis unit

School Student Teacher

Universe

All Private Schools

Kind of data

Census/enumeration data [cen]

Mode of data collection

Mail Questionnaire [mail]

Research instrument

The schedule of the Private School Census - 2003 includes following parts:

Part 1 : Identification Information
Part 2 : Students in school by 1st June 2003
Part 3 : Students by birth year
Part 4A : Disabled students
Part 4B : Disabled students by birth year
Part 5 : Students by grade according to the subjects study ( Religion, Technical subjects and Easthetic )

 Deatils of Teachers

Cleaning operations

Manual data editing and coding is done by the statistical unit of the Ministry of Education.

School enrollment data for each public school in the ACT. The number of students in each class is reported in February and August each year. Non-Government schools are only reported in February.

School Census Information - Primary Schools