# Schools

Education identity graph and public school, private school, postsecondary, civil-rights, and geographic data.

## Access

- Kind: api
- Audience: public
- Access: open
- Authentication: No authentication is required for documented public read operations.
- Lifecycle: active
- Observed health: degraded

## Integration links

- Base URL: https://schools.datasourceapi.com
- Documentation: https://schools.datasourceapi.com/api/v1/docs
- OpenAPI: https://schools.datasourceapi.com/openapi.yaml
- Status: https://schools.datasourceapi.com/api/v1/status
- Repository: https://github.com/coopalliance/cca-schools
- Catalog metadata: https://services.datasourceapi.com/api/v1/services/schools

## Capabilities

- education
- identity-resolution
- school-search
- school-statistics

## Provenance and freshness

- National Center for Education Statistics: CCD, PSS, IPEDS, College Scorecard, CRDC, EDFacts, and EDGE datasets. (https://nces.ed.gov/)
- Education authorities: State and selected international education authority records.

Update cadence: Daily federal, six-hour state, and 30-minute automation schedules.. Metadata last verified: 2026-09-03.


## Agent readiness

partial (58/100): OpenAPI and docs are published, but the last status audit reported critical CCD and IPEDS coverage gaps.

## Examples

### Service status

Inspect source coverage and ingestion health.

```http
GET https://schools.datasourceapi.com/api/v1/status
```