SchoolDigger API

Power your website or application with SchoolDigger data!

Since 2006, SchoolDigger.com has been the internet's most comprehensive source for U.S. K-12 school and district data.

Now for the first time, this data is available in JSON format for use on your websites and in your apps!

Getting started is easy!

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Select a plan below to get started

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Use your App ID and API key to authenticate the calls you make

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Start coding and create awesome applications with the SchoolDigger API

Plans are available for any budget:

     ...and you may change or cancel your plan at any time!

Dev / Test Basic Pro Enterprise
No Credit Card Required! Start Free Trial Start Free Trial Start Free Trial
Pricing: Free* $19.99/month $199.99/month $399.99/month
Free Trial: unlimited 7 days 7 days 7 days
API Calls/min: 1* 10 100 500
API Calls/day: 20* 500 5,000 100,000
* DEV/TEST calls within the API limits (1/min, 20/day) return Enterprise level data. After the API limit is reached, obfuscated results are returned.

School and District data:


Data available for over 123,000 U.S. schools and 18,500 districts:
  • School Name*
  • Address*
  • Latitude/Longitude*
  • Reviews by parents, students, teachers*
  • Attendance Boundary*
  • Boundary Serves a Given Address*
  • School Name
  • Address
  • Latitude/Longitude
  • Reviews by parents, students, teachers
  • School Name
  • Address
  • Latitude/Longitude
  • Reviews by parents, students, teachers
  • Attendance Boundary
  • School Name
  • Address
  • Latitude/Longitude
  • Reviews by parents, students, teachers
  • Attendance Boundary
  • Boundary Serves a Given Address
School Demographics history: up to 20 years* 1 year up to 8 years up to 20 years
SchoolDigger Ranking history: up to 10 years* up to 2 years up to 4 years up to 10 years
Test scores at the state/district/school grade/subject level: up to 10 years* up to 4 years up to 10 years
Test score performance tiers: up to 10 years* up to 10 years
(See example JSON) (See example JSON) (See example JSON)

Statewide Rank lists:


Ranking lists:
  • Statewide rank lists at the Elementary, Middle, High School, and District level*
  • Statewide rank lists at the Elementary, Middle, High School, and District level
  • Statewide rank lists at the Elementary, Middle, High School, and District level
  • Statewide rank lists at the Elementary, Middle, High School, and District level
Rank list history: all years available (up to 15!)* 2 years 4 years all years available (up to 15!)
(See example JSON) (See example JSON) (See example JSON)

Search for schools and districts:


Search for schools by:
  • School Name
  • District Name
  • City
  • Zip Code
  • Near a Latitude/Longitude
  • School Name
  • District Name
  • City
  • Zip Code
  • School Name
  • District Name
  • City
  • Zip Code
  • Near a Latitude/Longitude
  • School Name
  • District Name
  • City
  • Zip Code
  • Near a Latitude/Longitude

Filter list by:
  • Level: Elementary, Middle, High, Alternative, or Private
  • School type: Magnet, Charter, Title I, Virtual
  • Level: Elementary, Middle, High, Alternative, or Private
  • Level: Elementary, Middle, High, Alternative, or Private
  • School type: Magnet, Charter, Title I, Virtual
  • Level: Elementary, Middle, High, Alternative, or Private
  • School type: Magnet, Charter, Title I, Virtual
Boundary:
  • Return schools whose attendance boundaries include a given address or latitude/longitude*
  • Return schools whose attendance boundaries include a given address or latitude/longitude
No Credit Card Required! Start Free Trial Start Free Trial Start Free Trial
Basic Pro Enterprise
Get started! Get started! Get started!
API Calls/min: 10 100 500
API Calls/day: 500 5,000 100,000
Cost/call: 0 - 10,000 $ 0.0040 $ 0.0080 $ 0.0100
Cost/call: 10,001 - 100,000 $ 0.0032 $ 0.0064 $ 0.0080
Cost/call: 100,000+ (n/a) $ 0.0056 $ 0.0070

School and District data:


Data available for over 123,000 U.S. schools and 18,500 districts:
  • School Name
  • Address
  • Latitude/Longitude
  • Reviews by parents, students, teachers
  • School Name
  • Address
  • Latitude/Longitude
  • Reviews by parents, students, teachers
  • Attendance Boundary
  • School Name
  • Address
  • Latitude/Longitude
  • Reviews by parents, students, teachers
  • Attendance Boundary
  • Boundary Serves a Given Address
School Demographics history: 1 year up to 8 years up to 20 years
SchoolDigger Ranking history: up to 2 years up to 4 years up to 10 years
Test scores at the state/district/school grade/subject level: up to 4 years up to 10 years
Test score performance tiers: up to 10 years
(See example JSON) (See example JSON) (See example JSON)

Statewide Rank lists:


Ranking lists:
  • Statewide rank lists at the Elementary, Middle, High School, and District level
  • Statewide rank lists at the Elementary, Middle, High School, and District level
  • Statewide rank lists at the Elementary, Middle, High School, and District level
Rank list history: 2 years 4 years all years available (up to 15!)
(See example JSON) (See example JSON) (See example JSON)

Search for schools:


Search for schools by:
  • School Name
  • City
  • Zip Code
  • School Name
  • City
  • Zip Code
  • Near a Latitude/Longitude
  • School Name
  • City
  • Zip Code
  • Near a Latitude/Longitude
Filter list by:
  • Level: Elementary, Middle, High, Alternative, or Private
  • Level: Elementary, Middle, High, Alternative, or Private
  • School type: Magnet, Charter, Title I, Virtual
  • Level: Elementary, Middle, High, Alternative, or Private
  • School type: Magnet, Charter, Title I, Virtual
Boundary:
  • Return schools whose attendance boundaries include a given address or latitude/longitude
Get started! Get started! Get started!
* DEV / TEST API plan is intended for developer use and calls return
sample data. Do not use in a production environment!
You can change or cancel your plan at any time!          
Any questions? Contact us at api@schooldigger.com!      



Companies rely on SchoolDigger data!


SchoolDigger has been a reliable source of school data for over 12 years and proudly powers these partners:

Money Magazine    Century 21    Pitney Bowes    Onboard Informatics    Coldwell Banker   IXL

I'm here if you need assistance!


I'm Pete Claar, founder of SchoolDigger.com. I'm a life-long developer and love how APIs have made complex integrations simple. I spend a lot of time collecting and integrating nationwide school and district test score data and hope that this API is useful to you in your own endeavors. Please feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions about SchoolDigger or the API -- I'd love to hear from you! I'm at pete@schooldigger.com.
Pete