Public Data Commons

A number of education data sets are available for use by policymakers, educators, the public, program directors and researchers through the Virginia Longitudinal Data System. For a complete list of all the table descriptions and data elements, refer to the data dictionary https://www.doe.virginia.gov/statistics_reports/research_data/data_files/data_dictionary.pdf These datasets are intended to be used in applications that have filtering and query building capabilities such as spreadsheet applications [ MS Excel or Numbers], analytical applications [SPSS or SAS], or development-type applications. The datasets are compiled using all the possible combinations of all the demographics about students so each row within the dataset contains a rate or count in addition to the demographics used to arrive at the rate or count.