What's New for February 2025

New data from NCES: School Pulse Panel data from the U.S. Outlying Areas, November and December 2024 (February 25, 2025)
The November 2024 School Pulse Panel (SPP) U.S. Outlying Area data provide information on school meal programs, physical education programming, arts education programming, and National Parks Service education programming, and the December 2024 data provide information on student cell phone policies, presence of artificial intelligence in education, computing and digital literacy, and school facilities during the 2024-25 school year, as reported by school leaders in American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. November data were collected from November 12 through November 26, 2024, and December data were collected from December 6 through December 20, 2024

NCES released school year (SY) 2022–23 Common Core of Data (CCD) Dropouts Public- and Restricted-Use Data Files (February 20, 2025)
Today, NCES released the 2022–23 Common Core of Data (CCD) Dropouts Public- and Restricted-Use Data Files. The unduplicated number of dropouts are reported at state, district, and school levels for the 12-month period beginning on October 1, 2022 through September 30, 2023. The state- and district-level data are released in both restricted-use (RUD) and public-use (PUB) files, while the school-level data are only released as a RUD file.

More than Half of Public School Leaders Say Cell Phones Hurt Academic Performance (February 19, 2025)
The December 2024 School Pulse Panel (SPP) release provides information on student cell phone policies, presence of artificial intelligence in education, computing and digital literacy, and school facilities, as reported by school leaders in U.S. public schools.