Data analyses and visualizations from the Research Alliance for New York City Schools.

Research briefs, reports and guides highlighting key findings and lessons from our work.

Research Alliance projects span pre-K through college, addressing a wide range of topics that matter to NYC schools.

Local, state, and federal governments are increasingly making data about schools publicly available. To facilitate access to this information, the Research Alliance for New York City Schools provides links to a variety of data sources.

The School-Level Master File (SCHMA) is a dataset developed by the Research Alliance for New York City Schools at New York University. To create the file, we compiled publicly available data from the New York City Department of Education (DOE) and the U.S. Department of Education.