Background Information
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) collected data about key education and civil rights issues for the 2021-22 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 or ethnicity, sex, English learner, and disability. For more general information about the CRDC (including past and future collections), visit the CRDC home page.
2021-22 CRDC
Documents related to the 2021-22 CRDC data release are presented below:
- Press Release
Public announcement of availability of 2021-22 CRDC data. - A First Look: Students' Access to Educational Opportunities Report PDF (1.7M)
Highlights data from the 2021-22 CRDC on student enrollment, access to preschool programs, teachers and other staff, mathematics, science, and computer science courses and other programs, and school climate factors. - Civil Rights Data Quality Informational Snapshot PDF (1.5M)
Explains why data quality matters and presents steps that OCR took to ensure good quality data for the 2021-22 CRDC. - Overview of the CRDC Informational Snapshot PDF (1.1M)
Provides an overview of OCR's administration of the 2021-22 CRDC.
Access 2021-22 CRDC Data
To access a copy of and information about the 2021-22 CRDC public-use data file (including the Public-Use Data File User’s Manual and the Data Notes Appendix), please go to https://civilrightsdata.ed.gov/data.
- OCR intends to eventually make the 2021-22 CRDC data available on the OCR CRDC website for exploration and analysis. The website includes a tool that facilitates school-, district-, state-, and national-level searches and viewing of data reports.
OCR also provides a restricted-use data file for the education researcher. If you are interested in obtaining a license to access the 2021-22 CRDC restricted-use data file, then 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.