GreatSchools Scraper — School Ratings, Reviews & Demographics

GreatSchools Scraper exports US K-12 school profiles from GreatSchools.org: the 1–10 GreatSchools rating, test-score and student-progress ratings, enrollment, address, phone, principal, demographics, attendance and parent reviews, for every public, charter and private school in a city. It is built for real-estate analysts, relocation services, EdTech sales teams and education researchers, and it costs USD 12 per 1,000 schools (USD 0.012 per school on the Free tier) plus a start fee of about USD 0.006.

What data does the GreatSchools scraper return?

Each dataset row is one school profile.

Field	What it contains	Example
name, url	School name and GreatSchools profile URL	Hillcrest Elementary School
schoolId, gsid	GreatSchools school ID and state-prefixed ID	2013, FL-2013
schoolType	public, charter or private	public
grades, gradeLevels	Grades served	K-5
greatSchoolsRating	Overall GreatSchools rating, 1–10	10
testScoreRating, studentProgressRating	Sub-ratings, 1–10	10, 10
reviewRating, reviewCount	Average community rating (1–5) and number of reviews	4.16, 19
enrollment	Number of students	490
address, zipCode, city, county, state	Location	1010 East Concord Street, 32803
phone, website	Contact details as listed on GreatSchools (the website can be a social page)	(407) 245-1770
schoolLeader, schoolLeaderEmail	Principal name and the email shown on the profile, when present	Ms Bethany Chappetta
districtName, districtId, districtUrl	School district	Orange County Public Schools
lowIncomePercent	Share of low-income students	23
ethnicity, genderBreakdown	Student demographics, with state averages for gender	arrays
regularAttendancePercent	Students regularly attending	92
titleI, equityIndicator, collegeSuccessAwards, claimStatus	Program flags and awards	false, true
description	GreatSchools summary sentence	text
nearbySchools	Up to 10 nearest rated schools with rating, distance, type and grades	array
reviews	Up to 10 recent community reviews: date, authorRole, rating, text	array
scrapedAt, sourceUrl	Collection time and source page	ISO 8601, URL

Fields GreatSchools does not show for a school (for example studentTeacherRatio on many profiles) are null.

How do I get every school in a city from GreatSchools?

Enter the city as City, ST (for example Chicago, IL) and set maxResults. The Actor pages through GreatSchools' complete list for that city, 25 schools per page, and opens each school's profile. Orlando, FL lists 736 schools and Chicago, IL about 1,950, so a city run is no longer limited to the 25 or so schools featured on the city's landing page. Add schoolLevels (preschool, elementary, middle, high) or schoolTypes (public, charter, private) to keep only matching schools; filtered-out schools are not charged.

Is there a GreatSchools API?

GreatSchools offers paid API products of its own; this Actor is a pay-per-result alternative that reads the public school pages and returns the same core fields as JSON, CSV or Excel. You can call it from your own code through the Apify API (examples below) or from an AI assistant, without a GreatSchools API key.

When should I use this Actor, and when not?

Use it for school-quality overlays in property analysis, school comparisons for relocating families, principal and district contact lists for EdTech outreach, and equity or test-score research by city.

Do not use it for:

• An official federal school directory with NCES IDs. Use NCES School Lookup.
• Homes for sale near a school. Use Realtor Leads Scraper for agent contacts.
• Student housing. Use Student Housing Scraper.

Input

Field	Default	Notes
location	Orlando, FL (prefill)	City, ST or City, State
startUrls	–	School profile URLs, city URLs or best-schools list URLs; overrides location
schoolLevels	–	preschool, elementary, middle, high
schoolTypes	–	public, charter, private
maxResults	10	1–10,000 schools
maxConcurrency	5	Parallel requests, 1–20

{
  "location": "Austin, TX",
  "schoolLevels": ["high"],
  "schoolTypes": ["public", "charter"],
  "maxResults": 50
}

JavaScript (apify-client)

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor('muhammadafzal/greatschools-scraper').call({ location: 'Chicago, IL', maxResults: 100 });
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items.map((s) => `${s.name}: ${s.greatSchoolsRating}/10`));

Python (apify-client 3.x)

import os
from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient(os.environ["APIFY_TOKEN"])
run = client.actor("muhammadafzal/greatschools-scraper").call(
    run_input={"location": "Orlando, FL", "schoolLevels": ["elementary"], "maxResults": 50}
)
for school in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(school["name"], school["greatSchoolsRating"], school["enrollment"])

Use it from an AI assistant

GreatSchools Scraper works from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client through Apify's MCP server. Add https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=muhammadafzal/greatschools-scraper and ask, for example: "List the public high schools in Austin, TX rated 8 or higher on GreatSchools, with enrollment and phone numbers."

Output example

[
  {
    "schoolId": "2013",
    "name": "Hillcrest Elementary School",
    "url": "https://www.greatschools.org/florida/orlando/2013-Hillcrest-Elementary-School/",
    "schoolType": "public",
    "grades": "K-5",
    "greatSchoolsRating": 10,
    "testScoreRating": 10,
    "studentProgressRating": 10,
    "reviewRating": 4.16,
    "reviewCount": 19,
    "enrollment": 490,
    "address": "1010 East Concord Street",
    "zipCode": "32803",
    "phone": "(407) 245-1770",
    "schoolLeader": "Ms Bethany Chappetta",
    "districtName": "Orange County Public Schools",
    "lowIncomePercent": 23,
    "regularAttendancePercent": 92,
    "nearbySchools": [
      { "name": "Howard Middle School", "rating": 8, "distanceMiles": 0.39, "type": "Public district", "grades": "6-8" }
    ],
    "reviews": [
      { "date": "2023-11-09", "authorRole": "Other (school staff, family member, recent alum, etc)", "rating": 1, "text": "Every time a student had an issue…" }
    ]
  },
  {
    "schoolId": "14731",
    "name": "Eagle Creek Elementary",
    "schoolType": "public",
    "grades": "PK, K-5",
    "greatSchoolsRating": 9,
    "enrollment": 834,
    "phone": "(407) 930-5592"
  }
]

How much does the GreatSchools scraper cost?

You pay per school saved to the dataset, plus a start fee per started GB of allocated memory. Platform usage is included.

Event	Free	Bronze	Silver	Gold
School scraped	USD 0.012	USD 0.0117	USD 0.0114	USD 0.0096
Actor start (per started GB of memory)	USD 0.006251	USD 0.006094	USD 0.005938	USD 0.005

The default memory is 1 GB, so one start event is charged. Worked totals on the Free tier: 100 schools cost about USD 0.006 + 100 × 0.012 = USD 1.21; 1,000 schools cost about USD 12.01. A school is charged only after it is saved, never twice in a run, and if you set a maximum charge the run stops cleanly before going over it.

Reliability and limits

• Throughput is about 20 schools per minute (60 Chicago schools took about 3 minutes), so the default 1-hour timeout fits roughly 1,000 schools. For a larger city, raise the run timeout; the Actor stops cleanly and keeps what it saved when time runs out.
• Reviews are the 10 most recent shown on the profile; nearby schools are the first 10 in GreatSchools' "nearest rated schools" list.
• Every run writes an OUTPUT record with status (DATA, EMPTY, BLOCKED or REJECTED), schools delivered, school events charged, the city's listed school count, stop reason and warnings. A run that cannot read GreatSchools ends as failed with no school charges.

FAQ

Can I scrape GreatSchools ratings for a whole city? Yes. Set location and a maxResults as large as the city's school count; the Actor pages through the full city list.

Can I scrape specific schools? Yes. Put GreatSchools profile URLs in startUrls.

Why do some schools have no rating? GreatSchools does not rate every school, especially private schools; the rating fields are null then.

Are filtered-out schools charged? No. Only schools saved to the dataset are charged.

Do I need a proxy? No. Access is handled by the Actor, and proxy settings in the input are ignored.

How fresh is the data? Each run reads the live GreatSchools pages, so values match the site at run time.

Related Actors

• NCES School Lookup: official US school directory.
• Realtor Leads Scraper: real-estate agent contacts.
• Student Housing Scraper: student accommodation prices and reviews.

Legal and compliance

The Actor reads public GreatSchools pages without logging in. GreatSchools ratings and reviews are GreatSchools' content; check their terms before republishing, and treat reviewer text and principal contact details as personal data under the privacy laws that apply to you.

Last verified: 2026-10-27