Historical Data 1968 - 1998 from Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) | Office for Civil Rights | Department of Education

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Name File Type Size Last Modified
1968.zip application/zip 2.4 MB 02/10/2025 06:15:AM
1970.zip application/zip 2.4 MB 02/10/2025 07:15:AM
1972.zip application/zip 2.5 MB 02/10/2025 06:08:AM
1974.zip application/zip 977 KB 02/10/2025 06:07:AM
1976.zip application/zip 2.4 MB 02/10/2025 05:50:AM
1978.zip application/zip 3.3 MB 02/10/2025 05:47:AM
1980.zip application/zip 2.8 MB 02/10/2025 05:43:AM
1982.zip application/zip 2 MB 02/10/2025 05:42:AM
1984.zip application/zip 1 MB 02/10/2025 05:40:AM
1984_ED271543.pdf application/pdf 739.4 KB 02/10/2025 05:38:AM
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Project Citation: 

United States Department of Education. Office for Civil Rights. Historical Data 1968 - 1998 from Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) | Office for Civil Rights | Department of Education. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2025-02-10. https://doi.org/10.3886/E218864V1

Project Description

Project Title:  View help for Project Title Historical Data 1968 - 1998 from Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) | Office for Civil Rights | Department of Education
Summary:  View help for Summary
The Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC), formerly administered as the Elementary and Secondary School Civil Rights Survey, is an important part of the U.S. Department of Education's (Department) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) strategy for administering and enforcing civil rights laws in the nation’s public school districts and schools. The CRDC collects a variety of information including student access to rigorous courses, programs, resources, instructional and other school staff, and school climate factors such as student discipline and harassment and bullying. Much of the data is disaggregated by race/ethnicity, sex, disability and whether students are English Learners.

Since the 2011–12 school year, OCR has collected data from all public districts and their schools in the 50 states and Washington, DC. Over time the CRDC’s collection universe has grown to include long-term secure justice facilities, charter schools, alternative schools, and special education schools that focus primarily on serving students with disabilities. OCR added the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to the CRDC, beginning with the 2017-18 CRDC. From 1968 to 2010, civil rights data were collected from a sample of public districts and their schools, except for the 1976 and 2000 collections, which included data from all public schools and districts.

The purpose of the CRDC Archival Download Tool (Archival Tool) is to make the Department’s civil rights data from 1968 to 1998 publicly available. The Archival Tool organizes civil rights data by year, and provides users with access to the data, survey forms, and other relevant documentation. The tool also includes documentation on key historical CRDC data changes from 1968 to 1998. Users may extract district-level civil rights data. For instructions and information on using the Archival Data Download Tool, please view this page.

Important Consideration: Past collections and publicly released reports may contain some terms that readers may consider obsolete, offensive and/or inappropriate. As part of the Department’s goal to be open and transparent with the public, we are providing access to all civil rights data in its original format.

Privacy notice:
The Department of Education’s Disclosure Review Board determined that the CRDC files for 1968-1998 are safe for public “re-release” under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) (20 U.S.C. § 1232g; 34 CFR Part 99).

Data were collected via a sample of school districts and all individual schools within these districts.
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