Of all the collections of statistics you publish, probably none is more closely examined by a wider variety of readers than those dealing with education and schools. Test scores affect employment.
School violence is a gauge of the regional crime situation.
Education funding can mirror the overall financial vitality of an area. Fluctuations in college enrollment can predict big changes for the community in the immediate future. After all, schools are the mother of modern bureaucracies. Fortunately, the Web has a huge data pipeline emanating out of Washington. The site of the National Center for Education Statistics is the online extension of the federal agency charged with collecting and analyzing data related to schools in the United States and other nations.