US School Districts
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Every US public school district and independent charter agency operating this school year, as the Common Core of Data reports it.
Middle of 16 cohorts. All cohorts 53 · best cohort 60.
The source, and how we filtered it
| Source | NCES Common Core of Data, Local Education Agency directory 2025-26 (preliminary, v.0a), with websites from Wikidata and state education agency directories, National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), with Wikidata and the state education agencies (2026-05-06) |
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| License | The CCD is a work of the United States federal government and carries no copyright (17 U.S.C. § 105). Wikidata is CC0 1.0 Universal. From a state directory only a district's web address is taken, a fact about the district and not the directory's expression. |
| How we filtered it | Every agency in the CCD LEA directory that is operating in 2025-26 (open, new, added, changed or reopened) and is a regular public school district (LEA_TYPE 1 and 2, the second being a component of a supervisory union) or an independent charter agency (LEA_TYPE 7). Service agencies, supervisory union offices, state- and federally-operated agencies and specialized districts are not. The address is the agency's WEBSITE as its state reported it; where that is blank or not an address, Wikidata's official website for the item carrying the NCES district id, and failing that, the address the state education agency's own directory lists, recorded with the directory and the date it was read. A path is cut back to the site root unless the host is shared with another agency or is a hosting platform, where the path is the site. Nothing is dropped for sharing a host: each agency keeps its row and the website is measured once. Rows are ordered by state and name, and carry no rank. See scripts/prepare-school-districts-roster. |
| Instead of | A list of districts by enrollment from a commercial data vendor, which cannot be relicensed, and the 2024-25 CCD directory, which the 2025-26 file supersedes. |
| Built | 2026-10-29 |
The filtering is ours and is disclosed as ours. The source published a list; the decision about which rows of it belong in a cohort was a judgment call, and it is written down so somebody can disagree with it.
Where the 10735 sites land
| Grade | Share of the cohort | Sites | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weak | 6873 | 64.0% | |
| Not ready | 1813 | 16.9% | |
| Adequate | 2012 | 18.7% | |
| Strong | 37 | 0.3% |
What the cohort earns, dimension by dimension
The mean share of each dimension’s available points that this cohort earned. Low here means the whole sector is weak on it, not that one site dragged an average down. The per-site spread is in the dataset.
| Dimension | Mean share earned | Mean |
|---|---|---|
| #1 · Reach
These parameters determine the fundamental ease of access that AI has to your site information. |
68% | |
| #2 · Read
AI generally turns off JavaScript. Does your site information survive without it? |
47% | |
| #3 · Understand
Does a machine know who and what you are? |
24% | |
| #4 · Act
Sitemaps, redirects, 404s, licensing terms, and not wasting the crawl budget. |
77% |
The cap is 32 URLs and it is a ceiling, not a promise. A portal whose every link points at a different host yields one page; a university yields the full sample. The median here is 32, the range 1–32, published so that "we sampled 32 URLs per site" cannot become a claim the data does not support.
348 sites in this cohort served a certificate we could not verify. They were read anyway and scored normally, because reporting no response for a site every browser loads would describe our TLS stack rather than the site, and each one carries the finding in its row.
8 tests almost nobody in this cohort passes
| Test | What it asks | Failing | Of | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EXT-11 | Have you marked the part of a page that answers a spoken question? | 10735 | 0 | |
| EXT-12 | Do you tell search engines the moment a page changes? | 10735 | 0 | |
| EXT-16 | Do you publish a card or a skills list for the agents you run? | 10735 | 0 | |
| EXT-17 | Do you list your agents in your domain's DNS records? | 10387 | 0 | |
| EXT-2 | Do you list your APIs and agent tools where agents look for them? | 486 | 0 | |
| RED-10 | Do you offer a plain-text (Markdown) copy of your pages? | 8805 | 2 | |
| RED-11 | Does each page tell machines where its Markdown copy is? | 4 | 1 | |
| UND-9 | If a page is behind a paywall, does it say so? | 22 | 2 |
| Test | What it asks | Failing | Of | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EXT-14 | Does your site offer its actions to AI browsers as tools? | 9871 | 0 | |
| EXT-7 | If you run real question-and-answer pages, are they marked as such? | 509 | 0 | |
| RED-12 | If a machine asks for Markdown, does your site give it? | 10735 | 2 | |
| UND-1 | Does your site say clearly who you are? | 10733 | 2 | |
| UND-2 | Does your site use the page labels that search engines still read for what you publish? | 10735 | 3 | |
| PST-2 | Have you posted a Content Signals statement about what AI may do with your content? | 10735 | 0 | |
| UND-5 | Does the author label in your page code point to that person? | 8091 | 1 | |
| UND-10 | Does your page code link to your official profiles elsewhere? | 10733 | 2 | |
| EXT-13 | Can an assistant ask your site a question directly? | 10735 | 0 | |
| PST-4 | Have you reserved your text and data mining rights in a form machines can read? | 10735 | 0 | |
| EXT-1 | Do you publish an llms.txt file for coding assistants? | 10735 | 0 | |
| EXT-4 | Can an AI assistant connect to your site as a tool? | 10735 | 0 |
| Test | What it asks | Failing | Of | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UND-6 | Are your published and updated dates honest and visible? | 10735 | 6 |
Coral bars mark tests worth 2 points or more, the failures that actually move a score.
Every 17,704, named, with a report for each
Whether or not it has been scanned. Rows with no website on record, sites that were unreachable and sites that turned us away stay in the table with the reason on them, and none of them enters an average: dropping them would shrink the population to the part that was easy to measure. A few points between two neighbors is noise. The box filters every row in the cohort, not only the page you are on; click a header to sort the rows on this page by name or by score.
Showing 17,701–17,704 of 17,704 · page 178 of 178
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Washakie County School District #2, Wyoming wsh2.k12.wy.usblockedNCES district id 5605820; web address as the state reported it to NCES (CCD LEA directory 2025-26), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Weston County School District #1, Wyoming wcsd1.orgblockedNCES district id 5604830; web address as the state reported it to NCES (CCD LEA directory 2025-26), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Weston County School District #7, Wyoming weston7.orgblockedNCES district id 5606090; web address as the state reported it to NCES (CCD LEA directory 2025-26), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 406 | — | No | — | |
| Wyoming Classical Academy, Wyoming wyoclassical.orgunreachableNCES district id 5680258; an independent charter agency, its own local education agency; web address as the state reported it to NCES (CCD LEA directory 2025-26), not checked by loading it | — | No | — |
Scores are for the population, not for ranking two named sites against each other. A few points between neighbors is noise. See what these numbers can and cannot support. Data: sites.csv · checks.csv · summary.json