US Education Data Search

Search 16 US education data sources in one query — college data, K-12 performance, school financials, and student outcomes.

• ✅ Search 16 US education data sources across college and university records, K-12 performance, district or school financials, and student outcome datasets
• ✅ Get College Scorecard, CUNY and SUNY data, K-12 assessments and graduation rates, expenditure and salary data, and graduate outcomes in one workflow
• ✅ Covers 4 college-data sources, 5 K-12 performance sources, 4 financial sources, and 3 student-outcome sources
• ✅ Export results as Excel, CSV, or JSON, or connect it to Apify MCP, API, Make, n8n, and Zapier
• ✅ Current Apify listing is pay per usage, so you can start with small runs and scale only when the workflow proves useful

Education data in the US is fragmented across federal and state systems. College cost and earnings data lives in one place, K-12 performance in others, expenditure and salary records in others, and graduate outcomes somewhere else again. This Actor combines those active sources into one search layer so you can run one query across the parts of the education-data stack that matter for your workflow, then export or automate the results.

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What you can do with it

1. Search colleges and universities by cost, completion, and earnings

The college-data side of this Actor includes College Scorecard plus state-specific higher-education sources such as CUNY, SUNY, and Colorado financial-aid data. That makes it useful when you want to compare institutions, costs, or post-graduation earnings in one search workflow.

This is not just one institution finder. It is a mixed higher-education discovery layer across federal and state data.

What you enter:

What	Example
Search term	Columbia, NYU, University of Texas, or nursing
Categories	College data only
How many results	50 per source

What you get back:

Source	Example fields
College Scorecard	Institution name, state, net price, earnings, graduation rate, admission rate
CUNY / SUNY / Colorado aid	Campus or institution name, enrollment or aid metadata, state context

This is useful for college comparison, enrollment research, higher-ed analysis, counseling workflows, and AI assistants that need one search layer across US public higher-education data.

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2. Search K-12 assessment, graduation, and directory records across states

The K-12 performance side of this Actor includes assessment, graduation, and directory data from Delaware, Washington, Texas, and Connecticut. That lets you search districts, schools, and public K-12 performance signals without collecting files from multiple state education sites one by one.

This is useful when your starting point is a district or school name, not just a college.

What you enter:

What	Example
Search term	Dallas, Hartford, Seattle, or a district name
Categories	K-12 performance only
How many results	50 per source

What you get back:

Source	Example fields
Assessment and graduation datasets	District or school name, state, assessment or graduation metadata, year
Directory datasets	District or institution identity and directory context

This is useful for K-12 research, district benchmarking, relocation research, policy analysis, and workflows that need multi-state school-performance discovery in one run.

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3. Search district expenditure and educator-salary data

Financial context is often missing from education search tools, but this Actor includes a separate financial-data group with district and school expenditure records plus educator-salary data.

That means you can search for a district or location and pull spending-related records alongside the broader education search workflow.

What you enter:

What	Example
Search term	Boston, Seattle, or a district name
Categories	Financials only
How many results	50 per source

What you get back:

Source	Example fields
District and school expenditure datasets	District or school name, spending metrics, year, financial context
Educator salary data	Salary-related fields, district or educator context, year

This is useful for school-finance analysis, district benchmarking, grant and policy work, journalism, and workflows where spending context matters alongside performance or outcome data.

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4. Search graduate outcomes and student-discipline records

The student-outcomes group includes Washington graduate outcomes plus discipline-related records from Delaware and Massachusetts. These are different kinds of outputs, but combining them is useful when your workflow needs post-school results or student-outcome context rather than just institutional descriptions.

That gives this Actor more breadth than a standard college lookup tool.

What you enter:

What	Example
Search term	nursing, engineering, University of Washington, or a school/district keyword
Categories	Student outcomes only
How many results	50 per source

What you get back:

Source	Example fields
Graduate outcomes	Program or institution name, employment or wage-related outcome data
Discipline datasets	School or district name, discipline-related metrics or counts

This is useful for workforce research, program-outcome analysis, state education review, and mixed education-data workflows that need more than admissions and tuition information.

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5. Use one Actor for mixed education discovery in AI and automation workflows

The main advantage of this Actor is that you can search across several education-data categories without treating each federal or state source as a separate integration project.

Instead of teaching your assistant or automation how to query College Scorecard, K-12 state systems, expenditure datasets, and student-outcome sources individually, you can use one Actor as the search layer.

What you enter:

What	Example
Search term	University of Washington
Categories	College data + student outcomes
How many results	25 per source

What your assistant or automation gets back:

Source family	Returned data
College data	Institution, campus, or aid-related higher-ed records
K-12 performance	District, school, assessment, or graduation records if enabled
Financials	Expenditure and salary records if enabled
Student outcomes	Graduate outcomes or discipline records if enabled

This is useful for internal education assistants, research automation, policy workflows, grant support, and spreadsheet-based analysis that needs one US education-data entry point.

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How to use (no code required)

1. Click "Try for Free" at the top of this page
2. Type one or more search terms — college names, district names, schools, programs, or education keywords
3. Choose which categories to search:
   • college data
   • K-12 performance
   • financials
   • student outcomes
4. Set how many results you want per source
5. Click Start — the Actor queries the enabled education data sources and returns the results in the Dataset tab

You can then export the results as Excel, CSV, or JSON.

Because the Actor is listed as pay per usage, it is easy to begin with a small run, verify which categories are useful, and then expand from there.

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What you get back

Each result comes back as one dataset row. The exact columns vary by source family, because a College Scorecard institution row, a K-12 district record, an expenditure record, and a graduate-outcomes record do not share the same schema.

Across the dataset, you will typically see:

• _product_id
• _source
• _search_term
• _collected_at

Then source-specific fields such as:

• College data: institution, campus, admission, completion, earnings, aid, or enrollment fields
• K-12 performance: district or school identifiers, assessment or graduation fields, year
• Financials: expenditure, salary, or school-finance fields
• Student outcomes: graduate outcomes, wages, employment context, or discipline-related fields

Every row tells you which source it came from and which search term matched, so it is easy to separate the source families and feed the outputs into downstream research or automation workflows.

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Coverage

This Actor currently searches 16 active US education data sources:

Category	Count	Coverage
College data	4	College Scorecard, CUNY, SUNY, and Colorado financial-aid data
K-12 performance	5	Assessment, graduation, and directory records from DE, WA, TX, and CT
Financials	4	District and school expenditure data plus educator salary data
Student outcomes	3	Graduate outcomes and discipline datasets

The current active maps in the Actor are:

• 4 college-data sources
• 5 K-12 performance sources
• 4 financial sources
• 3 student-outcome sources

That matters because this Actor is not one unified national education database. It is a combined public-data discovery layer across federal and state education source families.

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Pricing

This Actor is currently listed on Apify as pay per usage.

The safest place to confirm the live commercial terms is the pricing tab:

• https://apify.com/lentic_clockss/us-education-search/pricing

If you want to keep runs small, the easiest approach is to:

• search only the categories you actually need
• start with one or two search terms
• lower maxResultsPerSource for exploratory runs

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Connect to your tools

You can use this Actor directly in the Apify UI, or connect it to automation and AI workflows:

Platform	How to connect
Apify UI	Run it directly and export results
Apify API	Trigger runs and fetch datasets programmatically
Make.com	Use the Actor ID lentic_clockss/us-education-search
n8n / Zapier / ChatGPT / Claude	Use the same Actor ID via Apify MCP or API

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Also Available

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