**Background Information**          Since 1968, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) has conducted the Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) to collect data on key education and civil rights issues in our nation's public schools. ED formerly administered the collection as the Elementary and Secondary School Civil Rights Survey. The CRDC gathers a variety of information including student enrollment and student access to educational programs and services, most of which is disaggregated by race or ethnicity, sex, English learner, and disability. The CRDC is a longstanding and important aspect of the ED Office for Civil Rights (OCR) overall strategy for administering and enforcing the civil rights laws for which OCR is responsible. Information collected by the CRDC is also used by other ED offices as well as policymakers and researchers outside of ED.For further general information about the CRDC, visit the CRDC FAQ page.

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**2021-22 and 2023-24 CRDCs*****NEW!***On April 18, 2023, OCR received approval from the U.S. Office of Management and Budget to require all local educational agencies (LEA) in the country that receive federal financial assistance from ED, including **every** public school district, charter schools, juvenile justice facilities, alternative schools, and schools serving only students with disabilities, to respond to the CRDC for the 2021-22 and 2023-24 school years. OCR made changes to the CRDC, including, but not limited to the restoration of long-standing and useful data elements that have been collected in previous CRDCs as well as some new data elements. For more details about changes in the  2021-22 and 2023-24 CRDCs, please see 2021-22 Questions and Answers PDF (183K) and 2023-24 Questions and Answers PDF (181K). OCR will notify LEAs of the dates when they must submit data for the 2021-22 CRDC.            
*Survey Forms*              The 2021-22 CRDC school- and LEA-level survey forms contain instructions, definitions, and table layouts for the 2021-22 CRDC items.
- 2021-22 CRDC School Form     PDF  (2.1M) 
- 2021-22 CRDC LEA Form     PDF  (450K) 

*Data Elements*
- Detailed List of 2021-22 CRDC Data Elements    PDF  (266K)
- Detailed List of 2023-24 CRDC Data Elements    PDF  (143K)

*Questions and  Answers*
- 2021-22 CRDC Questions and Answers    PDF  (183K)
- 2023-24 CRDC Questions and Answers    PDF  (181K)

*Guide*
- Forum Guide to State Education Agency Support for LEAs in Civil Rights Data Reporting  – This guide presents a variety of effective methods through which state education agencies (SEA) can support their LEAs in reporting civil rights data to OCR and provides several detailed case studies from SEAs that currently support their LEAs with Civil Rights Data Collection reporting.

To access  additional technical assistance resources, please visit the CRDC Resource  Center web site at https://crdc.communities.ed.gov.

**Access CRDC Data**

Civil rights data are available on the  OCR CRDC website. 

**2020-21 CRDC Reports and Data Snapshots**

For OCR reports on the 2020-21 CRDC (released  in November 2023), visit the CRDC 2020-21 page.

**2020-21, 2017-18, 2015-16, 2013-14, 2011-12, and  2009-10 CRDCs**

The CRDCs for the 2020-21, 2017-18, 2015-16, 2013-14,  and 2011-12 school years collected data from **every** public school  and school district in the country that received federal financial assistance from ED. The 2009-10 CRDC collected data from a **sample** of approximately 7,000 public school districts and over 72,000 public schools.  Resources for the 2020-21, 2017-18, 2015-16, 2013-14, 2011-12, and 2009-10 CRDCs are presented below. 

*Survey Forms*
- 2020-21 CRDC School Form     PDF  (1.6M)
- 2020-21 CRDC LEA Form     PDF  (458.8K)
- 2017-18 CRDC School  Form     PDF  (389K)
- 2017-18 CRDC LEA  Form     PDF  (1.7MB)
- 2015-16 CRDC School Form    PDF  (1.5M)
- 2015-16 CRDC LEA Form    PDF  (425K)
- 2013-14 CRDC School Form    MS WORD  (1.2M)
- 2013-14 CRDC LEA Form    MS WORD  (205K)
- 2011-12 CRDC School and LEA Form    MS WORD  (695K) 
- 2009-10 CRDC School and LEA Form    MS WORD  (687K) 

*Data Elements*
- Detailed List of 2020-21 CRDC Data Elements     PDF  (313.7K)
- Detailed List of 2017-18 CRDC Data Elements    PDF  (89K)
- Detailed List of 2015-16 CRDC Data Elements    PDF  (97K)
- Detailed List of 2013-14 CRDC Data Elements    MS WORD  (35K)
- List of 2011-12 CRDC Data Elements    PDF  (55K)
- List of 2009-10 CRDC Data Elements    PDF  (60K)

*Questions and Answers*
- 2020-21 CRDC Questions and Answers    PDF  (423.46K)
- 2017-18 CRDC Questions and Answers    PDF  (118K)
- 2015-16 CRDC Questions and Answers    PDF  (104K)
- 2013-14 CRDC Questions and Answers    MS WORD  (87K)
- 2011-12 CRDC Questions and Answers
- 2009-10 CRDC Questions and Answers

*Data Products*

*2020-21 CRDC:*
- Civil Rights Data Collection page (for 2020-21)  here

*2017-18 CRDC:*
- Civil Rights Data Collection page (for 2017-18)  here

*2015-16 CRDC:*
- Civil Rights Data Collection page (for  2015-16)  here

*2013-14 CRDC:*
- Civil Rights Data Collection page (for  2013-14)  here

*2011-12 CRDC:*
- Data Snapshot: Discipline (March 2014)     PDF  (2.10M)
- Data Snapshot: Early Learning (March  2014)     PDF  (1.6M)
- Data Snapshot: College and Career Readiness  (March 2014)     PDF  (2.7M)
- Data Snapshot: Teacher Equity  (March  2014)    PDF  (2.1M)

*2009-10 CRDC:*
- The Transformed CRDC: Data Summary (March  2012)      PDF  (805K) 
- Gender Equity in Education (June 2012)      PDF  (436K)
- Gender Equity in Education: Data Note (June  2012)      PDF  (208K)

**How to Submit a CRDC Data Quality Concern with OCR**

The CRDC data can be accessed at https://civilrightsdata.ed.gov. If anyone has concerns about the accuracy of the data reported, then please contact us by emailing ocrdata@ed.gov. Please include “CRDC Data Quality Concern” in the subject heading. 

**For additional information about the CRDC,  please e-mail OCR at****ocrdata@ed.gov**.        
  Last Modified: 01/03/2024