Background Information
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) collected data about key education and civil rights issues for the 2013-14 school year from virtually every public school in the country through the Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC).

The CRDC collects a variety of information including student enrollment and educational programs and services, most of which is disaggregated by race/ethnicity, sex, limited English proficiency, and disability.  For more general information about the CRDC (including past and future collections), visit the CRDC home page.

2013-14 CRDC

OCR and other parts of the Department of Education will be releasing documents in 2016 that use the 2013-14 CRDC data to provide insights into equity in school districts. 

• Press Release (issued June 7, 2016)

  Public announcement of availability of 2013-14 CRDC data

• First Look Report PDF (770K) (issued June 7, 2016; updated October 28, 2016)

  A broad overview of the data from the 2013-14 CRDC in an initial report of key areas of inequity and progress

• Chronic Absenteeism StoryMap (issued June 10, 2016; updated October 28, 2016)

  Data visualizations of chronic absenteeism in our nation’s schools

• Corporal Punishment Map  and Press Release (issued November 22, 2016)

  Displaying the use of corporal punishment across the country, by school district

• Protecting the Civil Rights of Students Being Educated in the Juvenile Justice System PDF (639.5K) (issued December 2, 2016)

  Spotlighting indicators of the quantity and quality of educational programs for youth in confinement

• Executive Office of the President: The Continuing Need to Rethink Discipline PDF (884K) (issued December 9, 2016)

  Examining data related to discipline, restraint and seclusion, and chronic absenteeism

• Council of Economic Advisers, Civil Rights Data Show More Work is Needed to Reduce Inequities in K-12 Schools(issued December 9, 2016)

  Describes data and research on educational inequities in six types of educational inputs in K-12 schools, complementing the White House report released on the same day

Access 2013-14 CRDC Data

Data from the 2000, 2004, 2006, 2009-10, 2011-12, and 2013-14 CRDC surveys are available in the CRDC reporting tool at http://ocrdata.ed.gov.

*UPDATE (as of October 28, 2016): The state of Florida, on behalf of its school districts, corrected data it previously submitted to the 2013-2014 Civil Rights Data Collection. Those data are now incorporated in the public-use data files below and the documents above. Other school districts may submit corrected data consistent with established CRDC policies. The New York City Department of Education has acknowledged anomalies in its chronic student absenteeism data.

• An updated public-use data file containing the entire 2013-14 CRDC on a disc can be requested MS Word (36K).
• An updated public-use data file containing the entire 2013-14 CRDC in CSV format can be downloaded in a  zip file (25M).  Warning – Large file.

If you want assistance regarding the data file:

• The Public-Use Data File User’s Manual for the 2013-14 CRDC provides information about the purpose of the study, the target population and respondents, data anomalies and considerations, differences in the restricted and public-use data, data collection procedures, the data file structure, and data processing.
• The 2013-14 CRDC school-level and district-level table layouts are also available for review.

If you are interested in obtaining a license to access the 2013-14 CRDC restricted data file, please visit the National Center for Education Statistics page for Restricted-use Data Applicants.

For additional information about the CRDC, please e-mail OCR at ocrdata@ed.gov.